We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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.
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
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.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
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.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
