Pleats Quotes

• I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

  David Bailey

  Girl, Witty, Fashion

  1990 In The Independent, 5 Nov.

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• Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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• Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

  Gary McCord

  Pants, Scream, Golfers

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• She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Morning, Hate, Blue Dress

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.13, Penguin

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• I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

  Giambattista Valli

  Flower, Design, Ruffles

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• When you walk in a saree, you must kick the pleats. It becomes more comfortable that way.

  Kajol

  Way, Sari, Walks

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• A game is not won until it is lost.

  David Pleat

  Football, Games, Lost

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• I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Nice, Numbers

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?

  Rei Kawakubo

  Space, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

  Mike Rowe

  Men, Flats, Suspicious

  "Dirty Job: Catching Up With Mike Rowe". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

  Tom Brady

  Guy, Athletic, Woods

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

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• Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

  Denise Levertov

  Pain, White, Knowing

  1972 Footprints,'The Malice of Innocence'.

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• But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.

  Billy Davies

  Football, Commitment, Media

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• Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Wrinkles, Unnecessary

  Helen Rowland (2017). “The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon”, p.8, Litres

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