Dresses Quotes - Page 21

• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Brown, Gravy

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• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Drama, Air, Play

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• It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

  David Hume

  Book, Eye, Air

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Voice, Looks, Life Is

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• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

  Susan Faludi

  Shopping, Clothes, Car

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

  Mary Frann

  Girlfriend, Jeans, Wish

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• I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Makeup, Perfect

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• As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.

  Duane Chapman

  Doors, Laughing, Hunters

  "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Hands, Sorrow, Left Hand

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• The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

  Elvis Costello

  Friendship, Party, Looks

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• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Tunes, Politics

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• The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

  Elle Macpherson

  Dream, Night, People

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• I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

  Helena Christensen

  People, Thank God, Carter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Income, Needs

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

  Halle Berry

  Inspirational, Baby, Waiting

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• A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

  Rona Jaffe

  Red, Wealth, Glamour

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  Victoria Justice

  Body Types, Body, Type

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• I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1997.

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• We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hair, Shoes, Gold

  "Kelly Cutrone: Fashion Week's Behind the Scenes Superstar" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2010.

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• In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, Thinking, Dress Code

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Kyoto, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!

  Agyness Deyn

  Matching, My Sister, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Sexy, Princess, Events

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

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• I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up having Lois dress up all sexy and stuff-but really what I would dress up like is a Stormtrooper. That's what I'd do, because it's hilarious, and who doesn't want to be that at some point, right? So then they made something out of that.

  Erica Durance

  Sexy, Book, Want

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