Daphne Guinness Quotes

I Play Piano And I Sing. But I Do That For Fun. I Mean, I Do Everything For Fun.

Holding A Note Is A Very Difficult Thing - You Have To Use Your Whole Body To Achieve A Perfect Pitch.

Fragrance Takes You On A Journey Of Time. You Can Walk Down The Street And Pass Someone And Get Taken Back 20 Years. It's Very Proustian That Way.

Everyone Wants To Get Behind The Red Rope, But Actually: Be Yourself, Don't Believe What You See, Don't Believe All This Marketing.

I Hate The Idea Of Making Any Of My Children Into A Mini-me. That Would Be Terrible.

I Don't Tell Anybody Else What To Wear. I Would Never Dream Of It.

Human Beings All Mimic Each Other.

I Don't Dress For Effect, And I Think That It Never Works Out When Someone Does.

We Need A Government, Not Politics. Because There's Too Much Politics. Of Course There Should Be Debate. But There Seems To Be So Much Pettiness And Not Enough Good Faith. It Is Civilized To Agree To Disagree, And This Idea Is Slowly Disintegrating. The Great Statesmen Of The Past Knew This, And I Think It Helps Drive Civilization.

I Really Try To Understand What People Are Saying And Answer As Honestly As I Can. But Sometimes It's Like They Try To Tie You Into Knots. That's Why I Mostly Steer Clear Of The Popular Press. I Try Not To Read . . . Well, I Never Read Gossip Press. I Just Read Books. And I Never Switch On The Tv Any More.

I'm Always Reading Many Books At A Time. It Might Be Quite Unorthodox, But What I Do Is, Since I'm Always Surrounded With Books, I'll Read A Page Of Physics, And Then I'll Read A Chapter Of A Novel That I Really Love, And Then I'll Say, "oh Well, What Does That Mixture Do In My Head?" I Adore Reference Books. I Love Encyclopedias. I Also Like Just Going Back To Original Texts, Because A Lot Of These Self-help Books Today.

My Basic Mathematics Is Rather Weak, So When Some Of The Theories Are Broken Into Equations, I Get Rather Lost.