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

• Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Bows

• Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Children
  • Design
  • Building

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Told
  • Tao

• Bankruptcy cleans out the system. What’s wrong with that? South Korea went through this in the late 1990s. They didn’t have anyone to bail them out, and they had to go through the pain. Sweden did it in the early 1990s. Mexico did it. Russia did it. The list goes on and on. Competent people take over the assets from incompetent people and rebuild from a solid base. Business has always been survival of the fittest and Darwinism at its best. After all, this is what capitalism is all about.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Pain
  • Bankruptcy
  • Darwinism

• 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