Dresses Quotes - Page 3

• When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

  John Weitz

  Men, Jewels, Black

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• There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

  Carly Simon

  Trying, Looks, Singers

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• The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

  C. S. Forester

  Running, Morning, Bed

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• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Hug

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.812, Modern Library

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• Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

  Mary Schmich

  Style, Wake Up, Costumes

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• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

  Russell Means

  School, People, Abhorrent

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• A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

  George Catlin

  Beautiful, Men, Gnarly

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

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• I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

  Paul O'Grady

  Games, Middle, Shows

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• I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Makeup, Hair, Shoes

  "The Hunger Games: First look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss!". www.ew.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

  Grover Norquist

  Dolls, Married, Kind

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• It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

  George Weinberg

  Mother, Pride, Gay

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• For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

  Elle Fanning

  Love, Baby, School

  "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

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• You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

  Curtis Hanson

  Facts, Directors, Scripts

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• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  Alice Meynell

  Fashion, Strong, Stupid

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• It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

  Stephen Root

  Fun, Lines, Stills

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• You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl

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• Life isn't a dress rehearsal

  Kerry Packer

  Positive, Rehearsal

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• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Teenager, Want

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, Rapper, High Heels

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• However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

  Christine Keeler

  Spy, Proud

  Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson (2012). “Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politic”, p.18, John Blake Publishing

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• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Awards, Looks, Designer

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

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• With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Tone, Film

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• I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, Juniors, Way

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• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Fashion, Looks

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