Clothings Quotes - Page 4

• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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• The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Smile, Fashion, Clothes

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• I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Women, Clothes

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• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• Never trust a man in red trousers

  Mika

  Funny, Men, Clothes

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• The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Women, Clothes

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Change, Summer, Character

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• Elegance is elimination.

  Cristobal Balenciaga

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

  Omar Suleiman

  Marriage, Respect, Religious

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Nov 18, 2013

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• Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

  Jean Patou

  Ambition, Artist, Desire

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• If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

  Tim Gunn

  Funny, Fashion, Clothes

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

  Giorgio Armani

  Death, Real, Artist

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• I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

  Lucy Stone

  God, Time, Believe

  "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women". Speech. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 1, 1881.

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• If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

  Shania Twain

  Doe, Compliment, Standing Out

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

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• The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

  Mark Twain

  Society, Skins, Demand

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.563, University of Alabama Press

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• Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

  Denis Diderot

  Hurt, Men, Self

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• Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

  Stuart Rose

  Care, Want, Made

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• A sheep in sheep's clothing.

  Winston Churchill

  Witty, Sheep

  Quoted in GeoffreyWillans and Charles Roetter, The Wit of Winston Churchill (1954)

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• It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

  Alex Carey

  Long, People, Morality

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• Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Women, Jeans

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Self, Deception, Needs

  "Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues". Book by K. Chandrasekhar, 2005.

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• When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Veils, Body

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• I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

  Bruce Willis

  Party, Men, Bachelors

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