Worn Quotes · Page 22

To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The…

— Warren St. John

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot…

— Elle Fanning

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

— David Gemmell

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils.…

— John Wesley

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually…

— Adolf Hitler

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we…

— John Muir

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken…

— Alain LeRoy Locke

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is…

— George Orwell

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

— Mark Doty

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

— Mal Fletcher

It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it.…

— Kim Hyo-yeon

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow…

— Solomon Northup

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell…

— Jay Mohr

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

— Darcey Bussell

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

— Jerry Spinelli

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman…

— Nancy Pelosi

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now,…

— Anonymous

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.

— Sue Hubbell

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

— Helena Christensen

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity…

— Eleanor Catton

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use…

— William Blake