Quote

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

Andre Leon Talley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
Spoken
Speak
Didn

More quotes by Andre Leon Talley

Image
On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Some days are good some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
Andre Leon Talley