Worn Quotes - Page 25

• I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

  Debby Ryan

  Looks, Done, Said

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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• In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

  Mark Nepo

  Listening, Way, Preference

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  Nanette Lepore

  Beautiful, Cutting, Thinking

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• I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out.

  Autumn de Wilde

  Rain, Men, Skins

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

  Steven Tyler

  People, Together, Sometimes

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• Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

  Julian Jaynes

  Giving, Use, Coins

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Dresses, Materials

  "Human, All Too Human".

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• Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident.

  Sophie Cookson

  Sexy, Suits, Feels

  Source: wwd.com

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• I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

  Sally Field

  Real, Opportunity, Play

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, People, Black History

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

  Conor Oberst

  Central Park, Forever, Looks

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• The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

  Tamara Mellon

  Uggs, Want, Comfortable

  Interview with Camilla Johnson-Hill, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2010.

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• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  Belva Plain

  Sorrow, Coats, Worn Out

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• Don’t answer to sick, or broke, or worn out any longer.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Sick, Answers, Broke

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• Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

  Sienna Guillory

  Issues, Tights, Able

  "Something Deeply Unfeminist About a Miniskirt". The Times, May 27, 2004.

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• For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  May, Months, Bed

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• While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.

  Rebecca Mead

  Fashion, Ideas, Clothes

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• The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Strong, Exercise, Principles

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

  David Gemmell

  Scar

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 3, 1985.

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• I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Sexy, Thinking, Knowing

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• My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

  Eminem

  Soul, Brain, Gone

  Song: Still Don't Give a Fuck

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• Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dust, Jewels, Sea

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.11, Penguin

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• Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Hands, Knives

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis

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• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sensual, Age

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