Dress Quotes

• We're not saying students can't dress up in women's clothing. But there's a difference between the one who dresses (like a woman) for a play, a costume party or Late Skate, and the one who might dress in a provocative way, in a sexual way, in a lewd way.

  

  Andrea Phillips
  • Party
  • Difference
  • Students

• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
  • Dress
  • Ladies
  • Ill-Health

• You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • United States
  • Neighborhoods
  • Cultural norms

• Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Dress

• You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Dress
  • Occasion

• I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.

  

  Elijah
  • God
  • Choose
  • The Lord

• The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Animal
  • Dress
  • Attractive

• I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Dress
  • Pieces
  • Consider

• Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Dress
  • Flowers
  • Chiffon

• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Funny
  • Justice
  • Cynicism

• Life is not a dress rehearsal.

  

  Rose Tremain
  • Life
  • Dress
  • Rehearsal

• For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Dress
  • Believed

• I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • I Love
  • Dress
  • Jeans

• We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Understand
  • Living
  • Lucky

• Before me no one would have dared dress in black.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Black
  • Dress

• It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

  

  Isaac Mizrahi
  • Dress
  • Centuries
  • Closets

• A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Dance
  • Dress
  • Ride

• I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Change
  • Roles
  • Dress

• The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Job
  • Pressure
  • Size

• I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.

  

  Suzanne Lee
  • Challenge
  • Fiction
  • Microbes

• If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

  

  Nina Totenberg
  • Work
  • Think
  • Dress

• I think you should dress nicely for airports. You’re surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • People
  • Surrounded
  • Airports

• Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her throat, instead of that itchy servant's cloak, she felt capable of matching wits with anyone.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Battle
  • Felt
  • Dressed

• There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Dress

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