Dresses Quotes · Page 31

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

— Andre Leon Talley

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

— Hal Higdon

You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to…

— Jennifer Connelly

Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you…

— Charlie Benante

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

— St. Jerome

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

— Mae Whitman

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and…

— Florence Welch

Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing…

— Julia Quinn

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was…

— Kim Cattrall

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest…

— Augustus William Hare

Nobody is going to buy one of our dresses because it will do, or as something to hide away in their wardrobe…

— Jenny Packham

“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I…

— Isabel Wolff

So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking…

— Rachel Vincent

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded…

— Walther Rathenau

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers…

— Salma Hayek

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

— Jean Rhys

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun.

— Monica Bellucci

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look…

— Oscar Wilde

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

— Madeleine Vionnet

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I…

— Mira Nair

I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of…

— Georgia May Jagger

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

— Ariel Pink

I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

— Elle Fanning

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

— Sam Raimi

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

— George Burns

“Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming?”

— Sylvia Plath

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your…

— Alec Baldwin

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

— Cassandra Clare

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense…

— Rachel Stevens

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of…

— Thomas Paine

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

— Alexander Wang

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

— Natalie Portman

When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.

— Kim Raver

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.

— Jon Champion

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it…

— Alison Lurie

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

— Marco Pierre White

Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.

— Lilly Pulitzer