Quotes and Sayings about Clothes
"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
- Will Adams
(Related: Clothes)
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wedding, Advice, Clothes, Woman)
"I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Dating, Life, Actor, Clothes)
"I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Clothes, Extreme, Hair, Job)
"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Character, Clothes, Influence, Instinct, Magic, Manners, Worth)
"The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Time, Body, Clothes, Today, Woman)
"For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Clothes)
"Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Men, Women, Clothes)
"Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Car, Being, Clothes, Kids, Popular, Right, School, Trying)
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Happiness, People, Feelings, Clothes, Confidence)
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Appearance, Clothes, Man, Manners)
"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Clothes, Months, Running)
"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: Art, Movies, Clothes)
"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: People, Clothes, Problems)
"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: Work, People, Action, Challenge, Clothes)
"I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character."
- Dan Aykroyd
(Related: Love, Character, Clothes, Play, School, Trying)
"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."
- Josephine Baker
(Related: Clothes)
"I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Clothes, Drinking)
"You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things."
- Majel Barrett
(Related: Work, People, Clothes, Now, Right)
"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."
- David Beckham
(Related: Clothes)
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Appearance, Clothes, Man, Manners)
"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Clothes, Possession, Woman)
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Clothes)
"I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Clothes, Cute, Hair, Makeup, School)
"I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Home, Love, Clothes, Day)
"I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Home, Love, Clothes, Day)
"For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast."
- Paul Bettany
(Related: Being, Clothes, Day, End, First, Grace, Reason, Respect, Rest)
"I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Sports, Life, Care, Clothes, Makeup)
"I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?"
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Funny, Clothes, Dress, Months)
"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Society, Clothes)
"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Clothes, Night)
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Music, Food, Clothes, First, Want)
"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Food, Peace, Clothes, Paris)
"Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Clothes, Illusion, Light, Magic, Want)
"I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?"
- Peter Buck
(Related: People, Clothes, Want)
"I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Clothes, Hair)
"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."
- Kate Bush
(Related: Being, Clothes)
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Money, People, Children, Clothes, School)
"Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Clothes, Want)
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
- David Byrne
(Related: Clothes)
"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Clothes, Expression, Woman)
"My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them."
- Lynda Carter
(Related: Women, Clothes, Interest)
"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."
- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Love, Kiss, Alcohol, Clothes, First, Magic, Routine)
"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Time, Idea, Character, Clothes)
"You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Food, Movies, People, Clothes)
"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Movies, Clothes, Day, Trying, Water)
"Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Character, Clothes, Help)
"I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance."
- Imogene Coca
(Related: Thought, People, Dance, Clothes, Comedy, Theatre)
"I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight."
- Robbie Coltrane
(Related: Women, People, Clothes)
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Music, Time, Clothes, Generations, Nothing, Passion, Procrastination)
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Time, People, Clothes, Hair, Listening, Saying, Skin)
"I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that."
- Courteney Cox
(Related: America, Clothes, Want)
"It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: Music, Clothes, Influence, Play)
"It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape."
- Daniel Craig
(Related: Work, Thought, People, Clothes, Living, Man, Trying)
"There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Nature, People, Clothes, Fashion)
"I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style."
- Kaley Cuoco
(Related: Love, Clothes, Fashion, Style, World)
"Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: People, Clothes, Laws)
"This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Family, Thought, Idea, Clothes, Cute, Mouse, Now)
"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Money, Clothes, Space)
"I don't take my clothes off in my videos."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Clothes)
"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Clothes, Film, Style, Today)
"Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Wife, Clothes, Man)
"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
- Caroline Dhavernas
(Related: Clothes, Cute)
"I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Clothes, Nothing)
"I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun."
- Taye Diggs
(Related: Dance, Clothes)
"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Clothes, Conservative, Enjoyment, Gentleman, Liberal, Right)
"The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Idea, Clothes, Trying)
"My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white."
- Fran Drescher
(Related: Home, Clothes)
"Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Men, Women, Clothes, Fashion)
"I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Love, Control, Clothes)
"For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football."
- Eliza Dushku
(Related: Time, Thought, Boys, Clothes, Football)
"Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Clothes, Pretty, Worth)
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Genius, Clothes, Common sense)
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Food, Money, Books, Clothes)
"I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
- Jerry Della Femina
(Related: Advertising, Clothes, Fun)
"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: American, Class, Clothes, Culture, Want)
"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
(Related: Hope, Clothes, Day, Film, Will)
"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
- Colin Firth
(Related: Clothes)
"Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: Love, Clothes)
"I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet."
- Megan Fox
(Related: Clothes, End, Forget)
"Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Love, Clothes, Girls)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Clothes)
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Blind, Clothes, Eye, Houses, Ruin, Want)
"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned."
- Martin Freeman
(Related: Music, People, Clothes, Culture, First)
"To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."
- Nancy Friday
(Related: People, Clothes, World)
"My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains."
- Du Fu
(Related: Time, Heart, Clothes, Spring, Water, World)
"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
(Related: Clothes, Grave, Monument)
"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Church, Clothes)
"My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive."
- Diane von Furstenberg
(Related: Clothes, Light, Pretty)
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Children, Clothes)
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Change, People, Clothes, Man, Will)
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
(Related: Life, Clothes, Spring)
"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."
- Henry George
(Related: Children, Clothes)
"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Work, Lie, Clothes)
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman
(Related: Car, Work, Clothes, Day, Driving, Job, Order)
"The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain."
- Simon Greenleaf
(Related: Character, Clothes, Man, Perfection, Will, Worship)
"But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Clothes)
"Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: Food, Clothes, Months, Will)
"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
(Related: Acting, Clothes, Film)
"You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room."
- Larry Hagman
(Related: Dream, Clothes, Hollywood, Years)
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
- Matthew Hale
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Folly, Value, Vanity)
"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."
- Ayumi Hamasaki
(Related: Design, Love, Dance, Goals, Clothes, Now, Tomorrow, Want, Years)
"Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing."
- Tim Hardaway
(Related: Clothes)
"I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!"
- Shalom Harlow
(Related: Clothes)
"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
- Michael Harrington
(Related: America, Clothes, Poor, Poverty, World)
"It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Work, Clothes, Eye, Will)
"Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Work, Clothes, Songs)
"The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Men, Actors, Clothes, Ladies)
"But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: People, Clothes, Pretty)
"I really have a generation gap about modern clothes."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Clothes)
"I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Clothes)
"In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part."
- Melissa Joan Hart
(Related: Character, Actor, Celebrity, Clothes, Voice)
"I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?"
- Owen Hart
"I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese."
- Sessue Hayakawa
(Related: Clothes, Dress, Want)
"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes."
- Edith Head
(Related: Clothes)
"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Beauty, Clothes, Hair, Woman)
"Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty."
- Herodotus
(Related: Clothes, Modesty, Woman)
"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Clothes, Houses, Joy, Sky)
"These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me."
- Nicky Hilton
(Related: Clothes, Friends, Name, Royalty, Want)
"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Work, Clothes, Ideals, Living)
"I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far."
- Kelly Hu
(Related: Clothes)
"I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now."
- John Hughes
(Related: Change, People, Brooks, Brothers, Clothes, Now)
"I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did."
- Lauren Hutton
(Related: Money, Clothes)
"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
(Related: Time, Belief, Clothes, Day, Right, Spirit, Summer, World)
"It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end."
- Billy Idol
(Related: Money, Clothes, End)
"And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion."
- Amy Irving
(Related: Baby, Clothes, Fashion, Right)
"I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east."
- Burl Ives
(Related: Change, Clothes, Open, Road, Walking)
"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens."
- Sheldon Jackson
(Related: Ambition, American, Clothes, Dress, Living, Style)
"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."
- Derek Jacobi
(Related: Actors, Climate, Clothes, Help, Writer)
"I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Women, People, Clothes)
"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization."
- Fredric Jameson
(Related: Food, Music, Heart, American, Clothes, Culture, Globalization, Popular, Television, World)
"When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes."
- Calamity Jane
(Related: Home, Men, Clothes, First)
"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
- Famke Janssen
(Related: Friend, Clothes)
"We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever."
- Elton John
(Related: Love, Life, Clothes)
"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Men, Children, Clothes, Despair, Martyrs, Mothers, Sanity)
"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes."
- Walid Jumblatt
(Related: Work, Clothes, Soldiers, Violence, Workers)
"If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?"
- Daryn Kagan
(Related: Clothes)
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
(Related: Work, Clothes, Problems)
"Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Clothes, Trouble)
"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Sex, Clothes)
"I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Food, Care, Clothes, Months)
"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Music, Clothes)
"Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude."
- Benjamin Franklin King
(Related: Food, Work, Clothes, Nothing)
"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."
- Coretta Scott King
(Related: Happiness, Life, Money, Thought, Clothes, Sense, Spiritual)
"In the last couple of years, I guess I've spent six figures on clothes. I figure I spend a lot of time shopping. Eight to ten days a month, I go out and buy. Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm a real clothes whore."
- Sam Kinison
(Related: Time, Clothes, Years)
"It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable."
- Mia Kirshner
(Related: Business, Clothes, Nudity)
"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Clothes)
"Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Men, Clothes, Earth, Fashion, Nothing)
"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Change, Men, Clothes, Fashion)
"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Sports, Clothes, Conservative, Fashion)
"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Brooks, Brothers, Clothes)
"I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story."
- Peter Krause
(Related: Home, People, Children, Clothes, Television, Want)
"It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero."
- Akshay Kumar
(Related: Body, Clothes, Language, Voice)
"Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!"
- Mila Kunis
(Related: Clothes, Difference, Now, Problems)
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Books, Clothes, Grandparents, Old)
"It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it."
- Karl Lagerfeld
(Related: Funny, Thought, Clothes, Now)
"I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Men, Women, Care, Clothes)
"All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Clothes, Hair, Needs, Woman)
"The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything."
- Judge Mills Lane
(Related: Clothes, Hair, Nothing, Skin)
"As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means."
- Robert B. Laughlin
(Related: Food, Being, Clothes, School)
"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: Clothes)
"It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Women, Age, Clothes, Daughters, Mothers, Taste)
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Design, Dreams, Clothes)
"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Women, Fashion, Victims, Want)
"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Dreams, People, Money, Class, Clothes)
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Sex, Hope, Clothes, Expression, Modesty, Sex appeal, Simplicity)
"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Women, Clothes, Famous, Joy, Want)
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Sex, Hope, Clothes, Expression, Modesty, Sex appeal, Simplicity)
"Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off."
- Jude Law
(Related: Clothes, Famous)
"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid."
- Denis Leary
(Related: Clothes, Revolution)
"Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Children, Clothes)
"It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people."
- Sheryl Lee
(Related: Time, People, Bed, Clothes, First, Strangers)
"I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!"
- Tea Leoni
(Related: Awards, Clothes, Dress)
"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
- Juliette Lewis
(Related: Building, Clothes)
"My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Love, Christian, Clothes, Fashion, Favorite, First)
"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
- George Lindsey
(Related: Poor)
"I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?"
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: People, Body, Clothes, Man, Saying, Woman)
"I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?"
- Jeanette MacDonald
(Related: People, Clothes)
"The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs."
- Kyle MacLachlan
(Related: Clothes, Winter)
"I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time."
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
(Related: Time, Being, Clothes, Danger)
"I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Girlfriend, Clothes)
"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
- Achille Maramotti
(Related: Clothes, Crisis, Fashion)
"Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it."
- Vanessa Marcil
(Related: Love, Men, Work, Clothes, Driving)
"Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign."
- Merrill Markoe
(Related: Clothes, Competition, Man, Old)
"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Clothes, Delusion, Fishing, Old)
"I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'"
- Eddie Marsan
(Related: Love, Funny, Wife, Clothes, Day, Saying)
"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
- Vincent Massey
(Related: Character, Clothes)
"I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good."
- Stella McCartney
(Related: Hope, Clothes, Weight)
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
- Frank McCourt
(Related: Food, Accomplishments, America, Clothes, Community)
"The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: Clothes, First, Grave)
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
- Claude McKay
(Related: Clothes)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Want, Woman)
"I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Fun)
"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time."
- Liza Minnelli
(Related: Time, Mom, Mother, Clothes, First, Television)
"I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: Clothes, Worry)
"I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill."
- Beverley Mitchell
(Related: Clothes, Now, Right)
"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: People, Clothes, Film, Public, Will)
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: Clothes)
"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: Thought, People, Dance, Beginning, Body, Clothes, Space)
"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: People, Clothes, Machine)
"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Clothes, Fashion, Press)
"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Hate, Now)
"I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Clothes, Want)
"Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity."
- Cleo Moore
(Related: Clothes, Painting, Publicity, Self)
"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals."
- Demi Moore
(Related: Idea, Clothes, Morals)
"I don't like to take my clothes off."
- Demi Moore
(Related: Clothes)
"I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked."
- Marguerite Moreau
(Related: Experience, Life, Opportunity, Character, Clothes, Film, Moments)
"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."
- Mira Nair
(Related: Honesty, Children, Clothes, Fact, Sense, World)
"I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Clothes, Projects)
"I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet."
- David Niven
(Related: Clothes, Old)
"The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes."
- Robert Novak
(Related: Clothes, Old, Party, Republican, Running)
"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
- John Oates
(Related: Clothes, Hair, Production, Songs, Years)
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Work, People, Ambition, Clothes, Fancy, Potential, Poverty, Want)
"But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes."
- Buck Owens
(Related: Bed, Clothes, Saying)
"Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire."
- William Penn
(Related: Knowledge, Clothes, Humility, Ignorance, Poor, Pride)
"Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Clothes, Gold, Jewels)
"VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes."
- Debbi Peterson
(Related: Clothes)
"Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect."
- Lou Diamond Phillips
(Related: Time, Women, Clothes, Ladies, Losing, Pain, Respect, Trying, Weight)
"Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Children, Clothes, Kids, Names, Old, Poor, Words)
"You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy."
- Susan Powter
(Related: Love, Clothes, Personality)
"The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes."
- Victoria Pratt
(Related: People, Character, Clothes, Job, Will)
"I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep."
- Laura Prepon
(Related: Bed, Clothes, Now, Sleep)
"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Marriage, Clothes, Visit)
"There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Life, Peace, Time, Women, Thought, Clothes, Now, Struggle)
"The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her."
- Mary Quant
(Related: Clothes, Woman)
"Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest."
- Francis Quarles
(Related: Clothes, Labor, Rest)
"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Women, Clothes, Cute, First, Man, Ships, Woman)
"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."
- Myrtle Reed
(Related: People, Clothes, Old, Want)
"I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Clothes, Girls, Hurt, Kissing)
"I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth."
- Debbie Reynolds
(Related: Movies, Clothes, Opinion, Realism)
"I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't."
- Little Richard
(Related: Time, Clothes, Hair)
"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(Related: Burden, Clothes, Comfort, Night, Protection, Wrong)
"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."
- Patricia Richardson
(Related: Clothes, Kids, Play)
"Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?"
- Don Rickles
(Related: Clothes, Wonder)
"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Clothes, Space)
"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Clothes)
"But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes."
- Eric Roberts
(Related: Death, Clothes)
"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."
- Julia Roberts
(Related: Performance, Act, Clothes, Nudity)
"I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie."
- Dennis Rodman
(Related: Women, Clothes)
"You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute."
- Christy Romano
(Related: Clothes, Cute)
"My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning."
- Ray Romano
(Related: Money, Wife, Clothes)
"We had plenty of clothes and no money."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Money, Clothes)
"But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea."
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Power, Wife, HusbIdea, Clothes, Will, Words)
"With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Money, Clothes, Now, Pretty)
"I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans."
- Portia de Rossi
(Related: Love, Time, Being, Clothes, Fact)
"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Poetry, Truth, Clothes)
"I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Ideas, Clothes)
"I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper."
- Damon Runyon
(Related: Baby, Clothes, Innovation)
"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Education, Government, Food, People, Clothes, Duty, First)
"I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department."
- John Sayles
(Related: Art, Change, People, Clothes, Weekend)
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Life, Truth, Thoughts, Clothes, Man)
"And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future."
- Brian Schweitzer
(Related: Faith, God, Clothes, Future, Grandparents, Montana, Nothing)
"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
- Izabella Scorupco
(Related: Character, Clothes)
"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Change, Manager, Clothes, Road)
"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
- Merle Shain
(Related: Clothes, Vices)
"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
- Shakira
(Related: Clothes, Company, Labor, Support, Wage)
"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Art, Clothes)
"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."
- Al Sharpton
(Related: Clothes, Party, Right, Running)
"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Clothes, Thinking)
"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me."
- Carly Simon
(Related: Clothes)
"I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture."
- Christian Siriano
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Hate)
"One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships."
- Courtney Thorne Smith
(Related: People, Actor, Being, Body, Clothes, Hair, Relationships)
"I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money."
- Jaclyn Smith
(Related: Money, People, Clothes)
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Clothes, Invention)
"In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport."
- Lisa Snowdon
(Related: Change, Clothes, End)
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
- Stephen Sondheim
(Related: Mother, Ambition, Celebrity, Clothes, Woman)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Letters, Woman, World)
"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Building, Clothes, Photography)
"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Friend, Clothes)
"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Clothes)
"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, People, Control, Clothes)
"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Thoughts, Care, Clothes, Dress, Words)
"I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes."
- Koo Stark
(Related: Blood, Clothes, Saying, Trying)
"I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes."
- Gwen Stefani
(Related: Life, Diet, Clothes, Cute, Trying, Want)
"I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear."
- Gwen Stefani
(Related: Clothes, Rules, Want, Years)
"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Money, Being, Care, Clothes)
"When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: Time, Clothes)
"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Character, Clothes, Fashion)
"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Money, Clothes, Waste)
"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Home, Care, Clothes, Existence, Fashion, Rest)
"Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe."
- Sherry Stringfield
(Related: Clothes, Pretty)
"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: Clothes)
"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Time, Mother)
"The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on."
- Lewis Tappan
(Related: Time, Clothes)
"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
- Richard Thompson
(Related: Clothes, Fun, Man)
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes)
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Men, Clothes, Question, Rank)
"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes, Distrust)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes, Distrust)
"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes)
"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Thoughts, Clothes, Friends, Trouble)
"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Mother, Clothes, Hollywood)
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Biography, Clothes, Man)
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Society, People, Clothes, Influence, Man)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Parents, School)
"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Clothes, Dress, Old, Ski)
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
- Bob Uecker
(Related: Men, Clothes)
"You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes."
- Boris Vallejo
(Related: Work, Clothes, Machine)
"I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Clothes)
"Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers."
- Patricia Velasquez
(Related: God, Clothes)
"Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music."
- Bobby Vinton
(Related: Music, Clothes, Morals, Now, Rap, Romantic, Songs)
"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more."
- Diana Vreeland
(Related: Clothes, Evening)
"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized."
- Vera Wang
(Related: Work, Challenge, Clothes, Personality, Sense, Style, Woman)
"I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman."
- Vera Wang
(Related: People, Challenge, Clothes, Dress, Focus, Personality, Self, Sense, Want, Woman)
"A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes."
- Vera Wang
(Related: Clothes, Woman)
"Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor."
- Fred Ward
(Related: People, Actor, Clothes, Reason, Trying, Want)
"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
- Barry Watson
(Related: Women, Clothes, Trying)
"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"
- Naomi Watts
(Related: Clothes, Film, Man, Woman)
"Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world."
- Hugo Weaving
(Related: Acting, Clothes, Want, World)
"That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws."
- Cynthia Weil
(Related: Time, God, Clothes, Flaws)
"My clothes are very popular in Japan."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Clothes, Popular)
"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Clothes, Formula, Old)
"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Love, Work, People, Clothes, Influence)
"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
- Katherine Whitehorn
(Related: Clothes)
"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."
- Tom Wilkinson
(Related: Character, Clothes)
"I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow."
- Robbie Williams
(Related: Clothes, Tomorrow, Treasure)
"Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible."
- William John Wills
(Related: Clothes)
"Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants."
- William John Wills
(Related: Clothes, Quantity)
"It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Funny, Work, Bizarre, Clothes, Dress)
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Clothes)
"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Clothes)
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: War, Clothes, Connection, Dress, Soldiers)
"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Clothes, May, Support)
"There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above."
- Fay Wray
(Related: Clothes)
"Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later."
- Fay Wray
(Related: Time, Being, Clothes)
"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not."
- Peter Wright
(Related: People, Beach, Clothes, Now)
"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Buying, Clothes)
"I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything."
- Teresa Wright
(Related: Clothes, Girls, Glamour)
"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
(Related: Work, Life, Clothes, Walking)
"How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Women, Father, Clothes)
"It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'."
- Rob Zombie
(Related: Sex, People, Clothes, Hollywood)