Dresses Quotes - Page 27

• Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.

  Teyana

  Swag, Way, Harlem

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• Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, People, Mood

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• Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

  David Sarnoff

  Eye, Political, Important

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• As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, War, Names

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• God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

  Robert South

  Easter, Men, Credit

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.286

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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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• To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

  Katharine Tynan

  Beautiful, Memorable, House

  Katharine Tynan (1928). “The Respectable Lady”

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• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Sports, Believe, Luxury

  Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

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• I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

  Isabel Wolff

  Girl, Shopping, Ideas

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• As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Kingdoms, Rough Times

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1947). “Travel years”

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• Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Curse

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.252, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Satire, Manners

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• Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Purple, Style

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!

  Christian Siriano

  Stars, Fun, Feelings

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Way, Gender

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Heart, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

  George Seaton

  Thinking, Generosity, Giving

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• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Song, Fall

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• Nobody says, hey men should not drink. It's all about women must dress differently, women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Hey, Able

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Husband, Self, Wife

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• Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

  John Florio

  Water, Flesh, Fishes

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• everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

  Brenda Ueland

  Communication, Writing, Garden

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

  Max Muller

  Yellow, Wish, Sin

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

  Rebecca Hall

  Dream, Black, Would Be

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