Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Dresses
  • Features

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Waste

• I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Dresses

• Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Glad
  • Simply
  • Expressive

• The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

  

  Paul Washer
  • Words
  • Dresses
  • Carries

• Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • People
  • Father
  • Feeling

• Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bows

• Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Bows

• For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Night
  • Dresses
  • Teeth

• . . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

  

  M. Carey Thomas
  • Time
  • True
  • Society

• You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Bows
  • Narnia

• Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Light
  • Bows
  • Namaste

• A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Enemy
  • Rich
  • Dresses

• There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Connection
  • Manner
  • Physiognomy

• Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Money
  • Dresses

• And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Way
  • Looks

• I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • Ugly
  • Dresses

• I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

  

  Sessue Hayakawa
  • Long
  • America
  • Formal

• You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

  

  Chief White Eagle
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Religion

• Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stars
  • Wanted
  • Pay

• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • God
  • Pray
  • Dialogue

• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Dresses
  • Bows
  • Expressive