Fashion Quotes - Page 38

• When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Drinking, Ties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.127, New Directions Publishing

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• I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  Vera Wang

  Women, Clothes, People

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• My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

  Joan Rivers

  College, Mad, Spanx

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• "I wouldn't go over here to Lisa Rinna and I would say 'Are those breasts real, are you wearing underwear?'"

  Joan Rivers

  Real, Underwear, Breasts

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• I'm sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn't.

  Joan Rivers

  Real, Wonder, Let Me

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• Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because they get the rings under water. When it comes up, it's garbage. Jewish, big rings. Episcopalian big rings. Italians-the best, because they get them off of dead people, and second wives get the biggest rings of all.

  Joan Rivers

  People, Water, Wife

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• I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Nice, Blue

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am.

  Ralph Lauren

  Giving Up, Moving, Goal

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• Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Encouragement, Creating

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• While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished.

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Data, Brain, Mind

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• The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.

  John Allen Paulos

  Clothes, Astrology, Pages

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• Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Sacrifice, Clothes, Secret

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• The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

  George Jean Nathan

  Clothes, Loyal And Faithful, Imagination

  1921 The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls,'Woman'.

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• I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

  Cary Grant

  Father, Clothes, Shoes

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• Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Names, Clothes, Liberty

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• Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.

  Jacques Cartier

  Clothes, Blue, Together

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• Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe.

  Dannii Minogue

  Sexy, Mean, Safe

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• If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Religion, Needs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.49, 谷月社

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• To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.

  Flo Hyman

  Dream, Volleyball, Life Is Too Short

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• As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Destiny, Eight, Years

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Knowledge, Science, Practice

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• The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by

  Leonard Bishop

  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Independent, Vote, Century

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• At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Memorial Day, America

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• Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Inspire, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.90

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