Fashion Quotes - Page 27

• 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 ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Beautiful, Loss, Unique

  Julia Cameron (2007). “The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size”, p.38, Penguin

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• I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Suits, Lost

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Eye, Self, Guilt

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• I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Paris, Evening

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• Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Thinking, Games

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books

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• Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Lying, Pretty Woman

  Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated

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• The two of you together are a menace,” Penelope remarked. “My aim in life,” Lady Danbury announced, “is to be a menace to as great a number of people as possible, so I shall take that as the highest of compliments, Mrs. Bridgerton.” “Why is it,” Penelope wondered, “that you only call me Mrs. Bridgerton when you are opining in a grand fashion?” “Sounds better that way,” Lady D said, punctuating her remark with a loud thump of her cane.

  Julia Quinn

  Two, Numbers, People

  Julia Quinn (2009). “It's In His Kiss”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.

  Gail Carriger

  Choices, Soul, Dresses

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• Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

  Gail Carriger

  Ships, Sides, Barnacles

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• The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, People, Insanity

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• The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Clothes, Simplicity, Grace

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.

  Gail Carriger

  Passion, Names, Three

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

  Paulo Coelho

  Army, World, Uniforms

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

  Paulo Coelho

  Black, Six Months, May

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• But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Knowing Nothing, Ideas

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• My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

  Lady Gaga

  Who I Am, Clothes, Way

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• I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Religious, Reading, Army

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

  David Eddings

  People, Costumes, Ridiculous

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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