All Peter York Quotes
- Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… Bearing
- Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue.… Analyst
- For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own… Avoidance
- George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… American
- Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick… Armed
- Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them… Attitude
- I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study;… Bother
- Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959,… Bongo
- Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… All
- Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first… Audi
- I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie… Area
- I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer… Actor
- I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists… Basic
- I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to… Arrows
- If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not… Absolutely
- Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy.… Appeared
- In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys -… Branding
- In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since… Achieve
- In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make… Ads
- In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various… All