Clothings Quotes - Page 17

• Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Land, Support

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• It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else.

  Sutton Foster

  Character, Superhero, Costumes

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Sometimes when I'm on the internet, I'll get this, like, which of these ad experiences would you prefer? And I'll have a choice of, like, a car, a pharmaceutical item or, you know, clothing. And I'm thinking, like, I don't want any of these. Do I have to choose?

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Car, Choices

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air", wmra.org. October 17, 2016.

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• I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

  Lyle Lovett

  Water, Creative, Hot

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Children, Parent, Special

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Letting Go, Heart, Dark

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• I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

  Morgan Saylor

  Character, Thinking, Vintage

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.

  Cam Newton

  Men, Giving, Feel Good

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

  Nikki Sixx

  Different, Generations, Want

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."

  will.i.am

  Girl, Fashion, Jeans

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.

  Kate Simon

  New York, Trying, Taste

  Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”

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• When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Feminine, Embrace

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.

  Susannah Constantine

  Design, Body, Shapes

  "These Girls Could Save Your Marriage". www.express.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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• Even if you just want to make a simple clothing item for yourself or go for a long hike in the forest - something we imagine requires absolutely no resources - you have to go to the store and buy a lot of stuff, and probably use a car.

  Catherine Wilson

  Simple, Car, Long

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Pirate, Ships

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Of course, the muscular build of athletes is always a challenge for a designer, but my clothing's softness and comfort, which are central aspects of my stylistic vision, allow it to adapt to various physical builds effortlessly.

  Giorgio Armani

  Athlete, Challenges, Vision

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Able, Normal

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  People, Guy, Males

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, Boys

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• But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace
  In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
  Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
  And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
  Then for thine accent--what in sound can be
  So void of grace as dull monotony?

  George Crabbe

  Nice, Long, Grace

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• Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Clothes, Wish, Battle

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Feel Good, Anything Can Happen, Passports

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