#desi

I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#base #because #came #designers #different

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#any #being #brand #business #celebrity

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#arts #ballet #costumes #dance #design

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#i #know #set #set designer #worked

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

#ambition #desire #directing #great #instrument

Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don't Expire! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#aspire #desire #dream #expire #inspirational

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired