Books Quote by Helen DeWitt

After the party I walked home,every step felt like walking on clouds,if this feeling I had was falling in love,then I've never felt anything…

— Michael Hayssus

I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.

— Rita Rudner

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and…

— Oscar de la Renta

“I’ll buy you a dress at half price, and hopefully half as much cloth was used and it’s twice as short as you’d prefer.”

— Jarod Kintz

i'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

— Sandra Brown

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

— Michael Kors

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

— Jonathan Miller

This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as…

— Thomas Sydenham

When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to…

— Iain Matthews

“And what did you do during that year before I met you?" "Just figured stuff out. Craig told me what to expect, so I…

— Elizabeth Segrave