Dresses Quotes - Page 37

• There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Men, World, Today

  "A history of the little black dress" By Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

  Nicole Richie

  Husband, Iphone, Attention

  Twitter post from May 26, 2012

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• I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Fighting, Needs

  "Kelly Cutrone's First Book and New Reality Series" by Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. January 29, 2010.

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• It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Men, Law, Two

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

  Kate Spade

  Fashion, Playing Dress Up, Age

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• Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Inspirational, Language, Fitting

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• The Oval Office symbolizes…the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

  Andrew Card

  Dream, Thinking, Expectations

  "Former Chief of Staff to Obama: Put Your Jacket On" by Bernie Becker, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 4, 2009.

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• My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

  James Boswell

  Memories, Passion, Animal

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• I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

  Amy Winehouse

  Sorry, Men, Black

  "Amy Winehouse Fashion Line Still Planned For Fall" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. August 9, 2011.

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• The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

  Lorde

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

  Nneka

  Years, Two, Differences

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• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

  Kurt Cobain

  Want, Matter, Feminine

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• Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

  Bobby Fischer

  Taken, Games, Class

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Morning, Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.

  Joan Nestle

  Men, Soldier, Uniforms

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• But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

  Kate Bush

  Track, Records, Reputation

  "'I'm not some weirdo recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

  George Burns

  Lunch, Advice, Dinner

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Joy, Evening

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Prayer, Fall

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Weed, Beach, Flower

  Gretel Ehrlich (1994). “A match to the heart”, Pantheon

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• When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
  My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

  Henny Youngman

  Husband, Men, Doors

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