All Quotes

"Prince Philip used to call Firle Place the prettiest little house he ever knew."

"I would say that it’s been a labour of love, except that it’s felt like more love than labour."

"I was working in PR and marketing for a small chain of hotels in the North West producing brochures"

"We’d just done a gardening weekend. It went very well and we thought we needed to do more specialist themed weekends, because at that time in the 1980s, it wasn’t really a thing."

"I was driving to work one morning and I heard about a shooting at The Plaza in New York. I thought about how awful it would be if someone was shot in our hotel."

"Then I thought how interesting it would be for the people staying there. A bit scary, but they wouldn’t be able to leave – they would have to give evidence."

"But I discussed it with the chairman of the firm and told him I thought we would get a lot of publicity, and he said yes."

"I thought it was important for the guests to have emotional attachments to characters,” she says. “I didn’t want them to just watch a show."

"Now, there’s so many interactive things like escape rooms – I was doing interactive 38 years before it became commonplace, so I think I was always an innovator."

"I had so much interest from around the world, which proves that the murder mystery weekend idea was new. No-one else had heard of them."

"“ Life is better after 60. You know who you are, won’t put up with nonsense and there’s a confidence that comes with age"."

"“ They refused me on the grounds that if a woman came to their house to sell it they would not take her seriously, and that the residential property industry is known to be a male‑orientated business. Actually, the second point is probably true even today!”"

"“My company has been successful for the last 31 years – as they said in the film Pretty Woman, ‘Big mistake, huge!”"

"“As the sole female owner and managing director, I hold a unique position in my area and I take this responsibility seriously”."

"“I love where I currently live in Hampstead Garden Suburb because it is picturesque, green and rural, yet close to Central London”."

"When I first arrived here, I felt as if [Haddon Hall] were asleep. In a deep, deep sleep."

"As they’ve worked their way through the house, the discoveries have been extraordinary: … ‘even old nails and gunshots and bullets. And I think there have been a few skulls,’ adds Gabrielle."

"Once again Haddon got shut up. The family used it for weekends, shooting parties, summer follies, picnics..."

"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

"Business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments."

"In a way, campaigning with The Hepatitis C Trust is business as usual. I've always felt that activism is my rent for living on this planet."

"“ As we approach the season of Christmas, when we believe that the face of God meets us in the face of a vulnerable child, for God's sake, and for the sake of our children in and out of season, let us rid our nation and our world of poverty in our lifetime”."

"“ Being poor does not predestine people to failure or make them violent, abusive, drug addicts or criminals. But grinding hardship, the struggle to keep out of debt, homelessness, inadequate housing and the constant fight against ever‑increasing odds leading to mental illness and low physical care are the breeding ground for social ill”."

"“ One is that when I read these amendments my heart leapt. I thought that if only the home local authority could be made responsible for every young person in secure provision on this basis with a proper plan for seeing them through … that would be absolutely wonderful”."

"We are team of researchers at Nnamdi Azikiwe University."

"We were awarded a research grant by World Health Organisation (WHO), to research in Social Innovation in Health"

"Social innovation in health started in 2014 and at that time WHO."

"Collaborated with London School of Tropical Medicine and discovered that certain diseases were found in Africa."

"So it is time for us to start looking within and to find solutions within ourselves and some vulnerable groups in remote areas to know some of their problems."

"Our objective is to look into issues related to communicable diseases, maternal and child health and even non communicable disease and access to quality healthcare."

"When they started working in these countries, WHO decided that they should also increase the number of countries that can use this initiative."

"HOBs had to get other HOBs from other countries and that is how Nigeria and Ghana got involved."

"The only way women’s contribution to national development can be appreciated is by electing a woman as president."

"Only 10 women across Nigeria got elected into the House of Representatives with 360 members, while only six women got into the Senate with 109 members."

"This has resulted in an unequal power relationship between women and men, social norms decrease, education and paid employment opportunities for women."

"Despite the odds, women should persist and continue to prove that when they lead."

"I always wanted to elevate those voices, those hidden voices that we really didn’t know about, especially when it comes to black fashion makers who really did make a contribution to fashion."

"What he wanted to do was show that we were lawyers and doctors and school teachers and business people, and that we were a middle class that was upwardly mobile."

"He way he did this was, he had these beautiful portraits of African Americans dressed beautifully, hair, makeup, hats, jewelry."

"We too can have nice homes we too can have fine jewelry."

"Their market was really targeted to those that really could pay the bills."

"I mean, white women who wanted to have a dressmaker, and many of them, when you look back at what they did, a lot of the fashion press."

"They speak highly of these women and the quality of what they make."

"They were defined as dressmakers and seamstresses."

"They would be defined as designers."

"In 1939, Blount had a beautiful body of work of these miniature hats and she presented them at the World’s Fair at the time."

"And the story goes that David Selznick’s wife was at the World’s Fair and saw her hats and the hats really depicted the film Gone with the Wind."

"The history is that Mildred did make those hats."

"The power of fashion lies in its ability to transform identity and culture."

"They are a courageous breed of designers who are going against the commercialized trend of 'more is more' and giving artistic value, a cultural face, and environmental consciousness to fashion."