Dressings Quotes - Page 12

• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.

  Virgil Goode

  Running, Historical, Groups

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• I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

  Portia de Rossi

  Running, Makeup, Sweat

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• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Noise, Sentimental

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

  Helena Christensen

  Crazy, Vintage, Ties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Luxury

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Way, Eating

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Doors, Dancing, Rooms

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• Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

  Shannon Hale

  Patience, Halloween, Dressing Up

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.103, A&C Black

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• Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

  Hedda Hopper

  Beautiful, Home, Rooms

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• Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

  Abby Wambach

  Soccer, Player, Want

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• I don't think you necessarily need to show off your stomach and boobs to be sexy. I'm just not attracted to that type of dressing.

  Ashley Olsen

  Sexy, Thinking, Needs

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

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• Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

  Chris Evans

  Cute, Baby, Octopus

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• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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• I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.

  Halle Berry

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Hollywood

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• I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.

  Grace Jones

  Brother, Boys, Makeup

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Clothes, Design, Lingerie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Dressing Up, Looks

  "INTERVIEW: Iris Apfel, Fashion Legends Never Cease". Interview with Roger Walker-Dack, www.thegayuk.com. August 14, 2015.

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• I couldn't stand the fact that anybody else was dressing like me. It was supposed to be for me and my friends, not my daughter and her friends!

  Donna Karan

  Daughter, Facts, Like Me

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Clothes, Comfort

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Two, Undressing

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• I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Salad Dressing, Salad

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