Clothes Quotes - Page 26

• There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

  Albert Einstein

  Atmosphere, Dresses, Oratory

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• [T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1950). “1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786”

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• I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.

  Robert Orben

  Use, Boxers, Should

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• I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Greek, Attention, Firsts

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.252, University of Toronto Press

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• You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Made, Spots

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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• The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Home, Shelter, Rags

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2002). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”

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• We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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• I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Mind, Looks

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• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, House, Bunting

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• I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

  China Machado

  Dresses, Shops

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• A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.

  Hortense Odlum

  Fashion, Attitude, Realization

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Lying, Dirty, Rome

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• I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Sexy, Grandmother, Careers

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• I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?"

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Party, Car, People

  "Samuel L. Jackson Is A Big Nerd, And Other Revelations From The Man'". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2005.

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• I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.

  Ken Jeong

  Real, Guy, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.

  Stella Chess

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

  Alan Watts

  Educational, Giving, House

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• Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

  Michael Kors

  Shining, Meat, Accessories

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• The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.

  Suzy Menkes

  Eye, Fire, Hands

  "Suzy Menkes: If Clothes Could Talk". Interview with Suzy Menkes, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Three, Medical

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• I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Photography, Lying, Thinking

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• The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Superstar, Outrageous

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• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  Calvin Miller

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press

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• Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

  Mason Cooley

  Historical, Body, Mysterious

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