Fashion Quotes - Page 25

• Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Needs, Ifs

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• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  Alber Elbaz

  Hard Work, People, Photographer

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• Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dog, Hate, Love You

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.119, David C Cook

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• Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fate, Men

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• His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.

  Julian Barnes

  Cutting, Air, Desperate

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Antiques, Costumes

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1160, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Distance, Heart, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Mr. Rochester". "Jane Eyre", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

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• A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Laughter, Real

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• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Catholic, Orthodoxy

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

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• He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

  Stephen King

  Children, Business Deals, Hug

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Cutting, Army, Makeup

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• Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

  Billy Corgan

  Sadness, Bullshit, Teeth

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• the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

  Jim Goad

  Unemployment, Alternatives, Coal

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Simple, Thinking

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• Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Kindness, Heart, Greatness

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• A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.81, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The Devil's out of fashion.

  Dodie Smith

  Devil

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.71, Random House

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• Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.553, Vintage

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• Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Two, Insane, Drs

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?

  Caroline Stevermer

  Ignorance, Thinking, May

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• I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Believe, Ideas

  "Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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• Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Wife, Becoming

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• Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Play, Maximum Ride

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• That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Science, Oddities, Calling

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.226, University of Illinois Press

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