Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The post of honour is a private station.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Seeing is not always believing.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

I take my sleep very, very important.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.