"May I never wake up from the American Dream."

Carrie Latet

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, and eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."

Walker Evans

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"My life didn’t please me, so I created my life."

Coco Chanel

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Pablo Picasso

"My rule, if it’s not moving…monogram it!"

Reese Witherspoon

"You can make a statement by how you dress. Clothes are really part of an expression; they make a statement about you. It’s sort of an introduction; it’s not you."

Ralph Lauren

"Thank Heaven for pretty girls,
They grow up in the most delightful way.
Thank Heaven for pretty girls
and the handsome men who steal their hearts away.
Thank Heaven."

Slim Aarons (singing)

"You start out as a phony and become real."

Glenn O’Brien

"I have always believed that you do not have to be rich to have style."

Diane von Furstenberg

"The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better."

Charles Dickens

"An ill-fitting jacket is always going to look like it belonged to your ugly uncle."

"If you obey the rules, you miss all the fun."

Katharine Hepburn

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Mark Twain