Dressings Quotes - Page 9

• I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, People, Labels

  "The Real McQueen" by Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 2007.

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• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  William James

  Happiness, Pain, Routine

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

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• I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

  John Lydon

  Artist, Mirrors, Rooms

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

  Joyce Meyer

  Salad Dressing, Together, Add

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• I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

  Paul Feig

  Kids, Thinking, Ties

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous.

  Sienna Miller

  Dressing Up, Glamorous

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  Rachel Roy

  Needs, Demand, Workplace

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

  Tommie Smith

  Team, Dirty, Athlete

  "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.

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• You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.

  Nick Hornby

  Flower, Kissing, Color

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.62, Penguin

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• The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Offering, Dressing Up

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• The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Dream, Moving, Artist

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• With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

  Jack White

  Kids, Years, Play

  "Jack White: 'I knew we'd get into these places and stir things up'". Interview with Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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• We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

  Tim Gunn

  Want, Be Confident, Get Away

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

  Glenda Bailey

  Beautiful, Return, Lace

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• Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

  Edith Head

  Men, Two, World

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• I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.

  Stephen Jackson

  Nice, Dressing Up, League

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• I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

  Terry Pratchett

  Presence Of Mind, Islands, Bottles

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• Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Home, Rooms, Theater

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• I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Unique, Dressing Up, Careers

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Heinrich Heine

  Gowns, Gaps, Structure

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