Dresses Quotes - Page 16

• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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• What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Flying, Want

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Philosophy, Exercise

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• Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

  Marco Pierre White

  Clothes, Should, Feels

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• I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

  Chris Isaak

  Hands, Clothes, Buttons

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• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  Naomi Watts

  Success, Play, House

  "Watts earns luxury of being choosy" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. August 3, 2003.

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• God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other, we are doing God's work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God's loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.

  Bernie Siegel

  God, Dna, Weather

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• Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

  Walter Scott

  Beautiful, Imagination, Rose

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.118, e-artnow

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• It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Listening, Facts, Contribution

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• If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Attitude, Cells, White

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• London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Cities, Shoes

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Laughter, Hands, Sensual

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.

  Joan Didion

  Morning, Vegas, Gambling

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• I
  believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
  her dress.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  Virginia Woolf

  Twilight, Moving, Knitting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

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• I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

  Brooke Astor

  Jobs, War, Nurse

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• Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

  Scott McNealy

  Dress Code, Computer, Code

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• It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

  Agyness Deyn

  Girl, Strong, Expression

  "See Agyness Deyn's Second Dr. Martens Collection and Campaign" by Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Black, Computer

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• It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

  Richard Branson

  Fire, Important, Rehearsal

  "Richard Branson: My golden rule of business" by Jack Preston, www.virgin.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

  Douglas Coupland

  Creepy, Dress Code, World

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Land, Property

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.93, Hachette UK

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