Skirts Quotes

• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

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• Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Years, Tennis

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 07, 2010

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• Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

  Lubov Azria

  Style, Trends, Classic

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• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Our Society, Losing, Talent

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Take Root Media

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Soccer, Football, Ideas

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• Killer skirt, deadly legs.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Legs, Killers, Hush Hush

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

  Kristen Bell

  Risk, Trying, Littles

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

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• Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.

  Robert Bridges

  Up In The Air, Clouds, Wells

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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• If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sex, Party, Kick Ass

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• I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions!

  Eva Mendes

  Stress, Worry, Silhouettes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

  Sania Mirza

  Winning, Feet, Long

  "Mirza hits back for modern Muslims" by Robert Philip, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 01, 2007.

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• We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Home, Spanish Harlem

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

  Woody Allen

  Maturity, Sweaters, Causes

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Fashion, Writing, Good Friend

  "Beautiful and damned" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Discipline

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• If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

  Heather Mills

  Femininity, Short Skirts, Ifs

  "Mills McCartney set to become a trademark" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2003.

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• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  Bai Ling

  Beauty, Wise, Crazy

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• Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

  Mariah Carey

  Awards, Hair, Fans

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• I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

  Brian Molko

  Girl, New York, Tired

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• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  Florence Kelley

  Struggle, Mean, Forever

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• I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

  Kristen Bell

  School, Thinking, Phones

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• I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

  Kim Kardashian

  Dresses, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

  Mindy Kaling

  Adventure, Littles, Subway

  "The Funny Side of Love". nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

  Pink

  Cute, Awards, Mtv

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