Elizabeth Hawes Quotes

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

Elizabeth Hawes

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• Style
• Evil

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• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Past

• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I would definitely trade clothes with Lucy Hale. Her fashion sense is right on point, and I feel like she's never afraid to take risks with her clothes.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Clothes

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Done
  • Fashion

• I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Clothes

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • True
  • Style
  • Mirror

• There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Style
  • Trends

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Live
  • Money
  • Style

• All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Power
  • Style
  • Road

• Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Writing
  • Style

• Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • People
  • Important
  • Style

• We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

  

  Arno Gruen
  • Evil
  • Mistake
  • Forgiving

• There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

  

  Jiah Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Air

• I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

  

  James P. Moran
  • Work
  • Different
  • Wife

• I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Evil