Clothes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
-- Aaron Spelling -
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
-- Abraham Verghese -
If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!
-- Abu Hanifa -
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
-- Adam Garcia -
The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
-- Adele -
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
-- Aesop -
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
-- Agatha Christie -
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
-- Aimee Bender -
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
-- Aisha Tyler -
The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.
-- Al Koran -
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
-- Alan Bennett -
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
-- Alan Paton -
It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,
-- Alber Elbaz -
When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
-- Alber Elbaz -
If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
-- Albert Einstein -
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
-- Albert Einstein -
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
-- Albert Finney -
Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.
-- Alexa Chung -
I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.
-- Alexa Chung -
I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.
-- Alexa Chung -
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
-- Alexander McQueen -
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
-- Alexander McQueen -
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.
-- Alexander McQueen -
People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination
-- Alexander McQueen -
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
-- Alexander McQueen -
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
-- Alexander Pope -
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
-- Alexander Pope -
I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
-- Alexander Theroux -
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
-- Alexander Wang -
My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me,
-- Alexander Wang -
I wear sports clothes because I feel comfortable in them.
-- Alexander Wang -
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
-- Ali MacGraw -
I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
-- Ali Smith -
When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
-- Ali Vincent -
Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.
-- Alice Temperley -
Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour.
-- Alice Temperley -
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
-- Alison Croggon -
He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't." He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.
-- Alison Goodman -
even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...
-- Alison Lurie -
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
-- Alison Sweeney -
In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
-- Allen Leech -
I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.
-- Allison Williams -
We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.
-- Alyson Noel -
In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some ***** clothes on.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Willow: Hey, clothes. Tara: Better not get used to 'em.
-- Amber Benson -
I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.
-- Amber Valletta -
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
-- Ambrose -
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.
-- Amelia Bloomer -
The word “art†is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.
-- Amiri Baraka -
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.
-- Amos Elon -
I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.
-- Amy Carlson -
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
-- Anatole France -
When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
-- Andrew Scott -
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.
-- Andy Behrman -
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
-- Andy Partridge -
Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
-- Andy Rooney -
American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
-- Andy Rooney -
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
-- Andy Rooney -
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value
-- Andy Stanton -
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.
-- Angela Davis -
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
-- Angelus Silesius -
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
I'd like to cut an attitude into clothes.
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I could snap my fingers and have any man I wanted, but I have too much respect for myself for that.... People can look then wonder about the taste and the sensuous delights of the dish, but when it comes down to it they simply can't afford such an expensive luxury.
-- Anna Kournikova -
If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
-- Anna Paquin -
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?
-- Anna Quindlen -
I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
-- Anna Sui -
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
-- Anna Sui -
Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.
-- Annabel Pitcher -
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
-- Anne Fortier -
Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself
-- Anne Hathaway -
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
-- Anne Hollander -
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.
-- Anne Hollander -
Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will
-- Anne Klein -
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
-- Anne Robinson -
I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
-- Anthony Daniels -
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
-- Anthony Marra -
When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
-- Anton Yelchin -
Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
-- Antonia Thomas -
I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.
-- Apolo Ohno -
What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!
-- Ardyth Kennelly -
I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
-- Ariel Pink -
Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.
-- Arjun Rampal
