Dressed Up Quotes - Page 3

• I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Beautiful, Mother, Opportunity

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• When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  Alexander McQueen

  Book, Night, Giving

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Teenage, Favorites Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Want, Poor

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

  Mandy Moore

  Events, Magazines, Stuff

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• Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

  Peter Gabriel

  Dream, Flower, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

  Edward Blishen

  Education, Philosophy, Discipline

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• I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.

  Victoria Justice

  Together, Edginess, Sometimes

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• Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

  Wyclef Jean

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

  Jessie J

  Singing, Want, Remembered

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

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• I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Looks, Premieres, Whole

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• In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.

  Lauren Conrad

  School, Mean, Jeans

  "Lauren Conrad" by Dan Today, www.seventeen.com. September 29, 2007.

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• Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.

  Lauren Conrad

  Want, Casual, Hard

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• "Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" "Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," "I knew we should have left you a rat," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Should Have, Feet

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.

  Amanda Peet

  Feelings, Feeling Pretty, Getting Dressed

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

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• It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Long, People

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

  Richelle Mead

  Air, Design, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X”, p.23, Penguin

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• But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

  Philip Reeve

  Girl, Boys, World

  Philip Reeve (2008). “Here Lies Arthur”

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Nerves, Looks

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

  Christopher Moore

  Whales, Car, Police

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• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  Rachel Weisz

  Women, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Emma Forrest, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Doctors, Practice

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Imagination, Style

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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