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

• Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Look
  • Will
  • 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

• Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Sorrow
  • Kings

• 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

• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Thanks
  • Everyone

• Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • People
  • America
  • Fortune

• Only sick music makes money today.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music
  • Money
  • Today

• A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • People
  • Support
  • Positive

• I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Stories
  • Said
  • Made

• 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