Frills Quotes

• In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

  Irving Berlin

  Easter, Parades, Bonnets

  Song: Easter Parade 1933

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Different, Add

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

  Jerry Wexler

  Respect, Real, Roots

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• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  Cameron Russell

  Military, Color, Style

  "Model Cameron Russell Doesn't Pull Together Outfits, She Lets Them Collapse!". Interview with Melody Nazarian, www.popsugar.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

  Novala Takemoto

  Growing Up, Believe, Ruffles

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• Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Essence, Knowing, Way

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• I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

  Angie Stone

  Knowing, People, Joy

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• Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Forever, Shapes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

  Mark Knopfler

  Special, Standards, Straightforward

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• Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

  Tod Machover

  Doe, Want, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

  Nancy Reagan

  "A Look Back at Nancy Reagan's Influential First Lady Style" by Sophia Chabbott, www.glamour.com. March 6, 2016.

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• The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Kindness, Sneakers

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I still believe in the old-school show thing no frills, no fancy equipment just a guitar and some amps and some drums, and throw it out there and do it the best you can in a live sense, because it's easy to make records. But the live show is where you really show if you've got the balls to do it.

  Shelby Lynne

  Believe, Old School, Guitar

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• Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Reality, Goal, Should

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• I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Flight, Dishes

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• In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

  Elliott Sober

  Simplicity, Aesthetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Grandchildren, Order

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

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• I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.

  Katie McGrath

  Stuff, Bows

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• No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate,
  as the great will dominate straight to the state
  Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in
  That category. Period. End of story.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Fate, Hip Hop

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• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Writing, Answers

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Tired, Stories

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

  Nadia Giosia

  Home, Thinking, This Generation

  "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

  George Orwell

  Modern

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