Dressings Quotes - Page 8

• Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Sweet, Boys

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.61, Lulu.com

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• All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Prayer, Games

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• I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Kids, White

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

  Bob Norster

  House, Rooms, Watches

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• I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
  I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
  gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
  transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

  Roja Dove

  Mother, Boys, Different

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• I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dresses, Want, Crosses

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Farrah's dressing room was next to mine. There was a little hole in the wall. I let her look.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Stars, Hollywood

  FaceBook post by Sarah Brightman from Jan 04, 2014

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• I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Doors

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• One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and t-shirts at your shows, but the music doesn't give that." I was like, "You're right, I need to be the person that I am at school, making dance and choreography. I should think about the whole performance." That's when I put the 1 in my name and started dressing for the occasion.

  Le1f

  Girl, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.

  Nicolas Cage

  Halloween, Holiday, Makeup

  "Nicolas Cage Is '2 Percent Open' to the Existence of Ghosts" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. September 25, 2015.

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• I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

  Joanna Page

  Rooms, Choke, Perfume

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.

  Dean Spade

  Leaving, Reform, Relief

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Men, Views

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

  Tommie Smith

  Team, Dirty, Athlete

  "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  Rachel Roy

  Needs, Demand, Workplace

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• The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Offering, Dressing Up

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Morning, Thinking

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• Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

  Valerie Steele

  Power, Gears, Combat

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• I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

  Iris Apfel

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same actor playing both characters in the scene? I knew this would be the best route, but I just wasn't comfortable dressing as a woman, so I had to hire other actors.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Would Be, Looks

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• It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in a trenchcoat, and then BAM. They sneak out with all your furniture

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Dressing Up, Issues

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