Dresses Quotes - Page 20

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

I always dress kind of monochromatic and very simple and all that kind of stuff.

I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

If I wore a low-cut dress or showed my cleavage or did lad's mags, people would make such a big deal. That has stopped me from doing it, but I would if it felt right.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

I love flowy hippie dresses.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself.

It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.

Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.