"Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering."

Source : Anne Hollander (2016). “Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

Anne Hollander

#Believe Quotes #Clothes Quotes #People Quotes

“Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that”

Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin
“Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!”
“I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.”
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

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“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.”
“â€¦tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”
“The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”

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