“Where do you begin?  The first thing you do is arrange to be born in Paris.  After that, everything else follows quite naturally.”
- Diana Vreeland

“Never fear being vulgar, just boring.”
- Diana Vreeland

 

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
- Oscar Wilde

 

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

“Optimism: have it.  There is always time to cry later.”
- Marlene Dietrich

 

“I do not think that we have a ‘right’ to happiness.  If happiness happens, say thanks.”
- Marlene Dietrich

 

“The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes “Awww!”
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 

“Though wars are fought, famines endured, monarchs overthrown, it is the givers of pleasure, the bringers of beauty, the gay at heart who endure.  These are history’s darlings.”
- Elsa Maxwell

 

“Life is always a tightrope or a featherbed. Give me the tightrope.”
- Edith Wharton

 

“As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”
- Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

“One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.” 
- Oscar Wilde

 

“I don’t use the accident.  I deny the accident.” 
- Jackson Pollock