Onassis Quotes:

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Beautiful, Grateful, Happiness And Love, Onassis, Beautiful Experiences

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

- Pierre Salinger

topic: Sleep, Night, Men, Onassis

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

- Paul Getty

topic: Friendship, Venture, Association, Onassis, Close Friendship

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

- Federico Fellini

topic: Photography, Broken, Cameras, Onassis, Bandits

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

- Anne-Marie Duff

topic: Children, Ideas, Icons, Hepburn, Style Icons

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: Differences, World, Married, Onassis

You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

- Bill Hicks

topic: Religious, Jesus, Thinking, Onassis, Pendants

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.

- Rupert Everett

topic: Running, Kids, Parent, Onassis

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

- Michael Jackson

topic: Dream, Book, Writing, Onassis

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.

- Maria Callas

topic: Loss, Voice, Weight, Onassis

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

- Stelios Haji-Ioannou

topic: Girlfriend, Greek, Ships, Onassis, Yacht