Body Quote by Charles James Download Open image “All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,” — Charles James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Funny Inspirational Love
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. — Rumi Copy Share
“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest. — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their… — Robert Musil Copy Share
I like the definition in someone's shoulders and arms. It's beautiful. — Nikki Bella Copy Share Image
In fashion, general people will look to the piece itself. [Some designers] concentrate on, 'How can I make this seam look special?' or 'What… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one… — Charles James Copy Share Image
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. — Charles James Copy Share Image
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James Copy Share Image
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out. — Charles James Copy Share Image
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years. — Charles James Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Copy Share Image
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image