Vanity Quotes - page 15

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity. (Daphne Guinness)
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. View quote
Eric Ries
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things. View quote
Frederica Mathewes-Green
My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag. View quote
Felicity Jones
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind. View quote
Graydon Carter
We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' View quote
Graydon Carter
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was. View quote
Gary Numan
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. View quote
Henry Bromell
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. View quote
J Tillman
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. View quote
Jean-Marc Vallee
'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things. (Jeremy Jackson)
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. View quote
Jeremy London
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. View quote
John Doerr
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one. View quote
Katie Aselton
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. View quote
Keith Urban
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful. View quote
Lorraine Toussaint
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. View quote
Laura Mennell
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. View quote
Bob Considine
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. View quote
DeWitt Clinton
It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar. View quote
Kim Rhodes
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. (Matthew Macfadyen)
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. View quote
Mira Nair
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. View quote
Peter Coyote
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. View quote
Patricia Meyer Spacks
I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man. View quote
Ralph Waite