Chic Quotes - Page 4

• I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

  Tina Fey

  Bed, Guarantees, Birth

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

  Jon Heder

  Mean, Looks, Suits

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• I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

  Ashley Benson

  Phases, Gothic, Edgy

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

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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

  Danielle Steel

  San Francisco, Style, Dresses

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Honesty, Struggle

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• I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Sister, Thinking, Two

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Yesterday, Avant Garde, Today

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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• I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

  Georges Bizet

  Ideas, Pieces, Want

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• The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Sophisticated, Slender

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• The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

  Eugenia Sheppard

  Clubs, Instinct, Herds

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• You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

  Carol Grace

  Mean, People, Weight

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• My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

  Jessie J

  Ghetto, Style, Tacky

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

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• Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

  Patrick Dennis

  Mink, Burlap, Said

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• A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

  Kate Spade

  Impact, Suits, Add

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• When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.

  Riccardo Tisci

  School, Clothes, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Drawing, Painting

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• If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Design, Promise

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• I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.

  Carey Mulligan

  Fashion, New York, Ideas

  Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

  Judith Martin

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Age, Enlightenment, Atlantis

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• There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Bisexual, Parent, Today

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• I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

  Joy Bryant

  Nails, Looks, Paint

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