Quotes from Karen Karbo

There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit...

Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Luxury is the opposite of status. It is the ability to make a living by being oneself. It is the freedom to refuse to live by habit. Luxury is liberty. Luxury is elegance.

A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion.

Julia arrived at "just do it" as a personal credo long before Nike snapped it up. Nothing anyone thought about her could stop her. Imagine a life in which you're never too anything for anything. Never too old to go back and get that degree. Never too uncoordinated to cut loose on the dance floor. Never too wrong-of-body to wear that swimsuit and throw yourself into the waves.

Years later, when Julia was famous she would often receive letters from people who asked not simply how they might learn to cook. They already knew the answer: The owned her cookbooks, but they were yearning to know how they might become passionate about it. She always answered the same thing: Go to France and eat.

În vremuril noastre, dominate de isteria colectiv? stârnit? de celebritate - ?i de superputerile pe care noi le credem c? le confer? -, uit?m complet c?, zi de zi, fiecare dintre noi trebuie s? se ridice din pat, s? se îmbrace, s? se spele pe din?i ?i s? purcead? la uciderea propriilor s?i mon?trii.

S? te bucuri de clipa prezent? înseamn? s? accep?i cu bucurie cine e?ti în acel moment.

The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.

Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days. Just pretend like it isn't happening, until you have no choice but to accept reality. If you're lucky, like Julia, you'll die peacefully in your sleep after having enjoyed a dinner of onion soup.

Don't waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don't have to be good, just honest.

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes.

What remains indisputable, however, is her genius for navigating the waters of her own vision, for discovering it, nurturing it, and never abandoning it.

S? îmbr??i?ezi tr?s?turile definitorii ale regiunii în care te-ai n?scut este o form? de apartenen?? la o familie extins?, dar f?r? obliga?iile uzuale. Este un mod de a apar?ine unui grup, f?r? s? se a?tepte de la tine s? faci vizite de Cr?ciun.

Fran?uzoaicele sunt renumite pentru lipsa lor de interes pentru prietene. Ele iubesc b?rba?ii, iar femeile reprezint? concuren?a ?i, prin urmare, nu po?i avea încredere în ele.

All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

Inima omului este animalul cel mai impredictibil care bântuie prin lumea cunoscut?.

Coco a spus, când vorbesc despre elegan??, vorbesc despre lux. Luxul trebuie s? r?mân? invizibil, dar trebuie s? se simt?. Luxul este simplu; este opusul complica?iei. Luxul este o necesitate care începe acolo unde se sfâr?esc necesit??ile. Unii oameni cred c? luxul este opusul s?r?ciei. Nu este a?a. El este opusul vulgarit??ii. Luxul este opusul prestigiului.