Gowns Quotes - Page 3

• I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

  David Walliams

  Uncles, Dad, Japan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Teaching

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

  Ksenia Solo

  Fashion, Design, One Day

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• When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

  William Feather

  Cutting, Doe, Looks

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?

  Eleanor Brown

  Love, Children, Passion

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.111, Penguin

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• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Nuts

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• In masks and gown we haunt the street
  And knock on doors for trick or treat
  Tonight we are the king and queen,
  For oh tonight it's Halloween!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Queens, Halloween

  Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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• I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.

  Christian Siriano

  Thinking, Shoes, Together

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• When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

  Louise Brooks

  Girl, Sweaters, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.

  Joan Rivers

  Want, Toes, Tag

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.44, Penguin

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• Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Degrees, Hemlock, Towns

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage

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• Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

  Thelma Golden

  Space, Tailors, Pants

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my …  chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Iron, Hair

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• Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.120, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Good Man

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.31

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• Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Hands, Snakes, Mad

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• I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

  Anita Loos

  Style, Sawdust, Evening

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• The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

  Steven Pressfield

  Order, May, Want

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.77, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

  David Hume

  Passion, School, Dancing

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'The Sceptic'

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• Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

  Eileen Chang

  Lice, Life Is, Extravagant

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

  Carl Jung

  Farewell, Heart, Psychology

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• I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.

  Patricia Heaton

  Baby, Breastfeeding, World

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• His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

  Clive James

  Funeral, Black, Fruit

  Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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