Adornment Quote by Virginia Postrel Download Open image “The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.” — Virginia Postrel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adornment Hard Impulse Out Personal Stamp Stamps
Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch. — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another way. — Miguel Sapochnik Copy Share Image
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. — Banksy Copy Share Image
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about… — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
When credit is cheaper to use and easier to arrange, people do use more of it. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The… — Bosley Crowther Copy Share Image
By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes,… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Positions and titles mean absolutely nothing. They're just adornments; they don't represent the substance of anybody. Every person and every job is worth as… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
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