I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.


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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA
Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA
You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
His brow is seamed with line and scar;
His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of ...
WALTER DE LA MARE
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, n...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's b...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD