Fashionable Quotes - Page 3

• It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did.

  Dionne Warwick

  Married, Supposed To Be

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• In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Past, Awards, Hands

  "Sigourney Weaver attacks Oscar voters". www.newyorkpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Hate, Independent, Artist

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3990, Delphi Classics

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• He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  College, Years, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

  Dolly Parton

  Trying

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mother, Team, Hair

  "Sarah Jessica Parker Interview - Sex and the City". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2008.

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• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  Rachel Nichols

  Yellow, Gloves, Cleaning

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• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Powerful, Giving Up

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• I always wanted to be fashionable.

  John Malkovich

  Wanted

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• I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

  Herman Kahn

  Ignorance, Emotional, Thinking

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• As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

  Elton John

  Children, Teenager, Clothes

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• Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

  Miguel

  Should, Aesthetics, Practicals

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• Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Paris, Drawing

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• Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

  Cookie Mueller

  Cancer, Clothes, Worry

  Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

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• There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

  Walter Benjamin

  Turtles, People, Personality

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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Judging

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Perfection, Excellence, Spirit

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• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  George Barr McCutcheon

  Men, Chicago, Doorways

  George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1476, Wildside Press LLC

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• Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

  W. H. Auden

  Rivers, Mourning, Tongue

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Past, Love Is

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• He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, College, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Poet

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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