Clothings Quotes - Page 29

• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Eyeglasses, Woven

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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• Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

  Christiane Northrup

  Home, Reflection, Self

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• As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

  Kelly Link

  Light, Hair, Doors

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• Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Silly, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Clothes, Pedestal, Sculpture

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Expression, Personality

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• Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Republic, Activity

  The Guardian (Paris) Interview, November 6, 1978.

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• I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.

  Bonnie Wright

  Fashion, Issues, Support

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• So many girls have become famous for literally nothing - other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.

  Bonnie Wright

  Girl, Fall, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Beautiful, Color, Should Have

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• Apparently, Osama bin Laden was killed with money and phone numbers sewn into his clothing. So we got him right before he left for summer camp.

  Jay Leno

  Summer, Phones, Numbers

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• Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Sex, Ozone, Hair

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• Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.

  William Carlos Williams

  Home, Writing, Faces

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Athlete, Office, Battle

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Tommy Douglas' maiden speech at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Set theory in sheep's clothing.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Sheep, Theory

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Generosity, Soul, Depth

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Misery, Cold

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• The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Independent, Technology

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Character, Portraits, Portraiture

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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