on attitudes.

casually browsing the sartorialist just now, i came across a quote from scott schuman in speaking about anna dello russo i couldn't help but share:

"Anna lacks the blasé gene, which is refreshing for a fashion icon."

simple words (that easily extend beyond the world of fashion), but words to live by.

"if there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him."

- voltaire

how happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!

the world forgetting, by the world forgot.

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.

alexander pope - eloisa to abelard

"coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love."

turkish proverb

"some places are like people; some shine and some don’t."

dick hallorann

"It’s partly that ineffable combination of dirtiness and innocence: they’re sexy, but they’re not sexual. They’re also not generically beautiful. God knows they’re hot enough, but they look interesting too. Intelligent. Slightly askew. You don’t just want to look at them or sleep with them; you want to talk to them."

lev grossman, on 2009’s time people of the year.

guy: this is stupid.

overheard: a couple standing in line at crate & barrel, guy complaining about the glass bowl full of fake fruit he’s holding. girl shoots him a dirty look after his remark.

I saw this show the other day where this fat guy was in an accident and a piece of wood hit him, but didn’t hit any vital organs, and he said that his fat saved him. I thought no, if he wasn’t fat, it would’ve missed him altogether!

Ricky Gervais, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

…Emma (Watson) who came ahead in the bank, bringing in $753.7 million last year while Daniel (Radcliffe) only brought in $558 million.

Perez Hilton, on the highest grossing two lead actors of the decade (as entered in Guinness Book of World Records), Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter franchise.

I wouldn’t even know what to do with those amounts of money, let alone if I grossed that much in one year by the time I was 18.

smoking and drinking go together, like porn and nachos.

marie kay “pickles” oblong

i have a life and it only goes in one direction - forward.

don draper

she slut. she get man. she must die.

graham norton, on his interpretation of why women are the way they are.

I want to combine the NAACP with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and call it Mothers Against the Advancement of Colored People.

Zach Galifianakis

He ordered a cup of coffee, slowly spooned sugar into it, tasted it (a pleasure that had been forbidden him in the clinic), and thought, while he stroked the cat’s black fur, that this contact was illusory, that he and the cat were separated as though by a pane of glass, because man lives in time, in successiveness, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.

from The South

…inability to enjoy other’s company sincerely. He hates most man and sees the evil in everyone, a self-loathing complex that causes his brash decisions to steadily become more volatile.

- the massie twins, there will be blood

with americans, it’s hard to find one who truly goes against the tide, because americans are much more conformist than italians. today the italian woman dresses worse than the american woman, but three out of a hundred italian women dress really wonderfully. the americans are dressed well but all look the same.

tommaso aquilano, co-lead designer of gianfranco ferré, on italy vs. america (via sarazucker)

true friends stab you in the front.

oscar wilde