"It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist."

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Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1942). “Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?”

Elizabeth Hawes

#Clothes Quotes #Body Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.”
“You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.”
“I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.”
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
“[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.”
“After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.”

Source : "5 Questions with Essence Atkins on Pregnancy, Marriage and Finding Love Online". Interview with Lathleen Ade-Brown, www.essence.com. October, 21, 2011.
“Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.”
“For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.”

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