Quotes and Sayings about Fashion
"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Fashion, Iraq)
"I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Old)
"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Women, Feet, Old)
"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Fashion)
"I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Fashion, Risk)
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Art, Science, Soul, Appreciation, Behavior, Energy, Fashion, Now, Today)
"There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Quality, Fashion, Sound, Will)
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Change, Men)
"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Guitar, Old, Play, Song, Songs)
"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Car, Work, Company, Fashion, Questions, Trying)
"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Mom, Fashion, Memory, Wine, Woman)
"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."
- Tadao Ando
(Related: Men, Women, People, Fashion, Freedom)
"I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: God, Fashion, Pain)
"I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Home, Work, Old, Public)
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Thought, Fashion)
"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Democracy, Fashion)
"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Dreams, Idea, Fashion)
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Quality, Difference, Fashion, Style)
"I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?"
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Majority, Worship)
"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: People, Fashion)
"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Fashion, Lies, Responsibility, Variety, World)
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
- Christian Audigier
(Related: Advertising, Celebrity, Fashion, Now, World)
"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Hell)
"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Fashion, Man, Satisfaction, Will, Woman)
"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."
- Mary Austin
(Related: Life, Country, Fashion, Land, Will)
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Art, Fashion, Living)
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
(Related: Old, Will)
"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
- David Bailey
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Witty)
"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Events, Fashion)
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Age, Love, Fashion)
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood, Woman)
"We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Society, American, Now, Word)
"Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Business, Old, Talking, Today)
"I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Fashion)
"Kindness is always fashionable."
- Amelia E. Barr
(Related: Kindness)
"I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion."
- Fantasia Barrino
(Related: Love, Dress, Fashion, Play)
"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Death, Cause, Fashion, Leading)
"There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Fashion)
"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Fashion, Value)
"Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti."
- Jacques Barzun
"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: History, Fashion, Needs)
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Women, Fashion)
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, News)
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, Influence, Now, Paris)
"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, State)
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
- E. T. Bell
(Related: Fashion)
"I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Fashion, Word)
"I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Fashion, Word)
"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
- Hans Bender
(Related: Possibility, Fashion)
"An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Faith, Fashion)
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Art, Ideas, Criticism, Fashion)
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Etiquette, Lying)
"Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Peace, Thought, Confusion, Events, Fashion, Help, Obvious)
"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track."
- Bill Bixby
(Related: Music, Old)
"Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about."
- Bill Blass
(Related: Change, Eye, Fashion, Style)
"We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way."
- Wolf Blitzer
(Related: Old)
"Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul."
- Stella Blum
(Related: Soul, People, Feelings, Fashion, Hate, Quick, Vanity)
"Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people."
- Stella Blum
(Related: People, Agreement, Fashion, Result)
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
- Robert Bork
(Related: Fashion, Law)
"I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Love, Fashion)
"I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same."
- Toni Braxton
(Related: Music, Fashion, Old, Will, Years)
"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."
- Steven Brust
(Related: Trust, Fear, Action, Conformity, Danger, Eccentricity, Fashion, Understanding)
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."
- Buddha
(Related: Thought, Speech)
"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: Men, Women, Commerce, Fashion, Novelty, Old)
"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Mother, Blood, Fashion, Growing up)
"The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering."
- Tim Cahill
(Related: Fashion, Quest, Wilderness)
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Fashion, Silence)
"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."
- Nicolas de Chamfort
(Related: Change, Fashion, Tax, Poor, Vanity)
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Fashion)
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Ideas, Fashion, Sky)
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Fashion)
"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Time, Women, Fashion)
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Fashion, Style)
"The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings."
- Jung Chang
(Related: People, Feelings, Acting, Fashion, Mourning, Tears)
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Science, Desire, Fashion)
"There's never a new fashion but it's old."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Fashion, Old)
"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Fashion)
"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Fashion, Right)
"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Fame, Fashion, Present)
"Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Technology, Fear, Being, Fashion)
"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
- Colley Cibber
(Related: Fashion, World)
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Schools)
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Art, Time, Fashion, Ugly)
"In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: People, Fashion, Years)
"I'm being invaded by fashion pundits."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Being, Fashion)
"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Gardening, Love, People, Fashion)
"I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Thought, People)
"And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion."
- James Collins
(Related: Life, Fashion)
"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Fashion, Football, Want)
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Happiness, Love, Fashion, Ladies, Pride, Vanity)
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: May, Nations)
"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Strategy, Buying, Gain, Leaders, Old, Support, Trade, World)
"I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible."
- Rachael Leigh Cook
(Related: Being, Interest)
"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Paris)
"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
- Ronnie Corbett
(Related: People, Entertainment, Old, Want)
"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Old)
"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Fashion)
"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Being, Consequences, Nothing)
"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)
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Fashion)
"I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style."
- Kaley Cuoco
(Related: Love, Clothes, Fashion, Style, World)
"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Fashion, Ignorance, Style, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others."
- Taylor Dane
(Related: People, Fashion, Song)
"Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Women, First)
"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Beer, Man, Old, Want)
"People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: People, Heart, Fashion, Trying)
"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
- Janice Dickinson
(Related: Business, Fashion, Sound)
"But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely."
- Janice Dickinson
(Related: Fashion, Lonely, Prison)
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Men, Dress, Fashion, Public)
"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Excellence, Perfection, Spirit)
"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Company)
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Fashion, Man, Nothing, Will, Worship)
"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
- Carrie Donovan
(Related: Dying, Entertainment, Fashion, Kids)
"Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Old)
"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)
""Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Men, Women, Fashion)
"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Intelligence, Purpose, Fashion, Universe)
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Fashion)
"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Science, Flying, Writers)
"My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true."
- Kim Elizabeth
(Related: Heart, Successful, Old, Philosophy, Sound, Will, Writing)
"Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion."
- Michael Ende
(Related: Fashion, Rain, Trees, Wind)
"I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love."
- Todd English
(Related: Love, Fish, Houses, Old, Trying, Want)
"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: People, Confidence, Desire, Fashion, World)
"The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
(Related: Old, Self)
"Fashion goes round in circles."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: Fashion)
"I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!"
- Lorrie Fair
(Related: Love, People, Athletes, Colors)
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Art, Work, Vision, Being, Fashion, World)
"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Science, Appearance, Desire, Fashion)
"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Peace, Strategy, Duty, England, Honor, Importance, Justice, Mercy, Old, Voice)
"It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Men, Women, Old)
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Related: Man, Old)
"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Fashion, Old, Reason)
"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded."
- Tom Ford
(Related: Artist, Fashion)
"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"
- Tom Ford
(Related: Actor, Fashion, President)
"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
- Janet Frame
(Related: Time, Help)
"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
- Janet Frame
(Related: Time, Help)
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."
- Anatole France
(Related: Nature, Act, Fashion, Human nature)
"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority."
- Marie de France
(Related: Authority, Past)
"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Old)
"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position."
- Alberto Fujimori
(Related: Fashion, Now, Problems, Result, Trade)
"Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Dreams, Fashion)
"No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires."
- Katherine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Fashion)
"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life."
- Alberto Giacometti
(Related: Life, Work, Day, End, Fashion, Past, Today, Will)
"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
- Kathie Lee Gifford
(Related: Advice, EnglFashion, Queen)
"The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Sex, Attention, English, Fashion, Media, Safety)
"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."
- Jean-Luc Godard
(Related: Beauty, Fashion, Passion, Quantity)
"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Love, God, Children, Fashion)
"Modern dancing is old fashioned."
- Samuel Goldwyn
(Related: Dancing, Old)
"Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource."
- Al Gore
(Related: War, Fashion, Nation, Will, World, World war)
"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Knowledge, Fashion, Ignorance)
"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price."
- Norman Granz
(Related: People, Fashion, Jazz, Names, Now, states, Today)
"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
- Celia Green
(Related: Obvious, Research, Theories)
"I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Love, Fashion, Fun, Silly)
"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 have very old-fashioned tastes."
- Jerry Hall
(Related: Old)
"You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up."
- Shalom Harlow
(Related: People, Fashion, Style)
"A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?"
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: People, Laws, Question)
"There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions."
- Dorothy Height
(Related: Civil rights, Contradiction, Human rights, Law, Respect)
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
- Lillian Hellman
(Related: Conscience, Fashion, Will)
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Idea, First, Old)
"History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: History, Politics, Religion, Fashion, Key)
"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
- Hesiod
(Related: Evil)
"You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season."
- Tommy Hilfiger
(Related: Want)
"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Cowardice, Fashion, Followers)
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Revolution, Ideology, Spirit)
"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
- Richard Holloway
(Related: Fashion, Popular)
"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Computer, Internet, Old, World)
"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Harm)
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
- John Hume
(Related: Class, Fashion, Living, Politicians)
"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."
- William Hurt
(Related: Time, Film, Old, Running, Want, Woman)
"Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Old, Racism)
"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: History, Evolution, Fashion, Meaning)
"We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Money, Old)
"And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters."
- Laura Innes
(Related: People, Medicine, Old)
"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)
"People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play."
- Bill Irwin
(Related: People, Old, Play, Sense)
"I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it."
- Bo Jackson
(Related: Old)
"I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned."
- Jackie Jackson
(Related: Old)
"Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth."
- Jane Jacobs
(Related: Men, Ladies, Old, Youth)
"I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Love, Life, People, Fashion, May, World)
"The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Life, Drugs, Fashion, Talk)
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
- William James
(Related: Hell, Theology, World, Wrong)
"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Music, Health, People, Company, Fashion)
"I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing."
- Dwayne Johnson
(Related: Business, Love, People, Being, Care, Fashion, Nothing, Old)
"I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid."
- Tom Jones
(Related: Time, Fashion, Punk)
"Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you."
- Mike Judge
(Related: Dance, Fashion, Question)
"I'm against fashionable thinking."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Thinking)
"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
- Immanuel Kant
(Related: Man, Nothing, Wood)
"Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world."
- Marcy Kaptur
(Related: Leader, Budgets, Doubt, Fashion, First, World)
"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people."
- Donna Karan
(Related: Love, Architecture, People, Development, Building, Fashion, Space)
"To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic."
- Walter Kaufmann
(Related: Faith, Fashion, Suffering)
"To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Idea)
"I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion."
- Alicia Keys
(Related: Life, Fashion)
"I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music."
- Lil' Kim
(Related: Love, Music, Fashion)
"You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits."
- Neil Kinnock
(Related: Fashion, Wit)
"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
(Related: Time, Church, Countries, Marxism, World)
"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's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Awareness, Country, Fashion, Gay)
"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)
"There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Fashion, Gay)
"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)
"People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Crime, Fashion, Talk)
"Fashion is a very particular world, as you know."
- Heidi Klum
(Related: Fashion, World)
"I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Dating, Experience, Men, College, Fashion, Fiction, Housekeeping, Job, Writing, Years)
"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Choices, Fashion)
"Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful."
- Michael Landon
(Related: People, Old)
"I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades."
- Nathan Lane
(Related: Old)
"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Fashion)
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Marriage, Improvement, Old)
"They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Women, Fashion, Victims)
"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)
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Fashion, Years)
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Style)
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Fashion, Woman)
"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art."
- Steven Levy
(Related: Art, Work, Computer, Creation, Emotions, Fact, Fashion, Help, Rules)
"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Beauty, Attitude, Fashion, Want)
"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)
"I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: End, Fashion)
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
- John Locke
(Related: Fashion, Nothing, Ostentation)
"Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Honesty, Facts, Fashion, Mind, Washington)
"The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Survival, Effect, Fashion, Old)
"So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!"
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Love, People, Fashion)
"Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable."
- Adolf Loos
(Related: Being)
"It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear."
- Lori Loughlin
(Related: Funny, Fashion, Girlfriends)
"Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer."
- Lori Loughlin
(Related: Existence, Fashion)
"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Mankind, Mystery)
"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
- Annni-Frid Lyngstad
(Related: Being, Fashion)
"And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing."
- James MacArthur
(Related: Idea, Old)
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
- Thomas B. Macaulay
(Related: Ladies)
"You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work."
- Ali MacGraw
(Related: Business, Work, Fashion, Girls, Husbands)
"People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: People, Fashion, Film, Nothing, Press)
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Fashion, Silence)
"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: America, Blame, Nation, State)
"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Music, Being, Books, Community, Culture, Help, Language, World)
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
- Paul de Man
(Related: Fashion, Fire)
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Popular, Today, Years)
"Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Elections, Fashion)
"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
- Achille Maramotti
(Related: Clothes, Crisis, Fashion)
"I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion."
- Cindy Margolis
(Related: Being, Fashion, Past)
"I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion."
- Eddie Marsan
(Related: Movies, Actor, Actors, End, Fashion, Stars)
"It is necessary to make virtue fashionable."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Virtue)
"I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city."
- George Mason
(Related: Etiquette, Nonsense)
"I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: Architecture, Idea, Old, Today, Visions, World)
"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
- Rue McClanahan
(Related: Cruelty, Fashion)
"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion."
- Todd McFarlane
(Related: Life, Time, Fashion, Trying)
"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."
- Robert McNamara
(Related: Action, Fashion)
"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
- Alexander McQueen
(Related: Idea, Fashion, Luxury, Rules, Style)
"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
- Alexander McQueen
(Related: Ideas, Commerce, Fashion, Self)
"I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two."
- Christine McVie
(Related: Business, Old)
"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Fashion, Freedom)
"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)
"I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion."
- Debra Messing
(Related: Fashion)
"I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings."
- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Work, Fashion, Literary, Now, Result)
"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Fashion, Melancholy)
"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)
"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Work, Fashion)
"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'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree."
- Eddie Money
(Related: Music, Time, Fashion, Trying)
"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
- Eugenio Montale
(Related: Time, Fashion, Fire, Laws, Production, Question, Taste, Today)
"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
- Dylan Moran
(Related: Books, Old)
"Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink."
- Andrew Morton
"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion."
- Kary Mullis
(Related: Art, Fashion)
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
- Gilbert Murray
(Related: Imagination, Direction, Greece, Road)
"I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy."
- Stevie Nicks
(Related: Old)
"I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Fashion, Name, Publicity)
"A character is a completely fashioned will."
- Novalis
(Related: Character, Will)
"I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion."
- Jana Novotna
(Related: Time, Fashion, Right, Style, Tennis)
"I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life."
- Bruce Oldfield
(Related: Life, Fashion, Want)
"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Fashion, Mind, Style)
"We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines."
- Jose C. Orozco
(Related: Earth, Fashion, Machines, Ships)
"I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me."
- Bettie Page
(Related: Thought)
"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, People, America, Nothing, Old, Wrong)
"I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
(Related: Old)
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
- Gordon Parks
(Related: Chicago, Fashion, Trying)
"To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought."
- Walter Pater
(Related: Thought, Principles)
"I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Thought, Artist, Balloons, Fashion, Word)
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents, Schools, Today, World)
"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Fanaticism, Today, Tomorrow)
"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
- Christopher Plummer
(Related: Computer, Old)
"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: First, Old, Will, Words)
"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
- Hugo Pratt
(Related: Art, Fact, Fashion)
"I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned."
- Jaime Pressly
(Related: Hollywood, Old, Want)
"I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns."
- Katie Price
(Related: Fashion, Want)
"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
- Joseph Priestley
(Related: Children, Delight, Fashion, Heaven, School, Sense)
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Fashion, Grace, Lent, Novelty, Paradoxes, Today, Tomorrow)
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Literary, Opinion)
"The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her."
- Mary Quant
(Related: Clothes, Woman)
"Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of."
- Mary Quant
(Related: Life, Home, People, Fashion)
"Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today."
- Mary Quant
(Related: Being, Fashion, Today)
"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Bigotry, Right, Slavery)
"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Fashion, Taste)
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Fashion, Taste)
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Cowardice)
"An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: Faith, Fashion)
"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
- Stephen Rea
(Related: Business, People, Fame, Famous, Fashion)
"In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular."
- B. Carroll Reece
(Related: Old)
"So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process."
- Mitchell Reiss
(Related: Success, Policy, Countries, Fashion, Guidance, President)
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
- Jules Renard
(Related: Fashion, Writing)
"Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day."
- Oscar de la Renta
(Related: Time, Women, Day, Destiny, Fashion, Now)
"I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important."
- Giovanni Ribisi
(Related: Old)
"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(Related: Society, Class)
"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion."
- Rihanna
(Related: Work, Fashion)
"I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly."
- Rihanna
(Related: Hate, Old, Routine)
"I'm an old-fashioned girl."
- Chita Rivera
(Related: Old)
"Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy."
- Jay Roach
(Related: Opportunity, Character, Comedy, Old, Parents, Trying)
"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."
- Queen Marie of Romania
(Related: Women, People, Breeding, Etiquette, Fashion, Taste)
"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Design, Direction, Fashion, School)
"This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view."
- Josiah Royce
(Related: Fashion, Idealism, Novelty, State)
"We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere."
- William Ruckelshaus
(Related: Fashion)
"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Women, Care, Children, Class, Fashion, Man, Support, Wage, Woman, Workers)
"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
- George Santayana
(Related: Fashion, Imitation, Innovation, Reason)
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
- George Santayana
(Related: Men, Gods, Atheism, Piety, Universe)
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Being, Destruction, Fashion, State)
"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
- May Sarton
(Related: Life, Fashion, May)
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
- Elsa Schiaparelli
(Related: Fashion)
"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."
- Stanley Schmidt
(Related: Fashion, Popularity)
"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Actions, Company, Today)
"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Apparel, Fashion, Man)
"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Fashion, World)
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Fashion, Nothing)
"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."
- George Bernard Shaw
"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
- Carly Simon
(Related: Fashion, Sense)
"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Heart, Eye, Fashion, Open)
"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Fashion)
"I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon."
- Wallis Simpson
(Related: Fashion, states, United)
"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)
"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun."
- Christian Siriano
(Related: Love, Politics, Design, Boys, Culture, Environment, Fashion, Fun, Gay, Pretty)
"That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent."
- Iain Duncan Smith
(Related: Children, Fashion, Kids, Parents, Right)
"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Fashion)
"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Class, Dress, England, Years)
"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
- Peter Sotos
(Related: Imagination, People, Idea, Fashion, Interest, Voice)
"The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that."
- David Soul
(Related: Old)
"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values."
- Steven Spielberg
(Related: Values, Old, Years)
"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: End, Fashion, School)
"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Fashion, Favorite)
"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, College, Fashion)
"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Music, Time, People, Fashion, Television)
"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Architecture, Time, Fashion, School, Summer)
"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Life, Spring)
"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting."
- Edmund C. Stedman
(Related: Art, Fashion)
"I studied literature design and fashion design."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Design, Fashion, Literature)
"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."
- Stendhal
(Related: Fashion, Nothing)
"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."
- Stendhal
(Related: Men, Desire, France, Luxury, Majority, Man, Woman)
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."
- Jon Stewart
(Related: Land, Old, Thanksgiving)
"Fashion is so over the top."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Fashion)
"Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country."
- Bram Stoker
(Related: Country, Delight, Old)
"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Mediocrity)
"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Character, Clothes, Fashion)
"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)
"I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair."
- Erich von Stroheim
(Related: Hair, Old)
"Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers."
- Hudson Stuck
(Related: Fashion, Name)
"I love art and fashion."
- Mena Suvari
(Related: Art, Love, Fashion)
"He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record."
- Matthew Sweet
(Related: Music, Folk, Living, Old)
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
- Thomas Szasz
(Related: Men, Guilt, Mind, Now, Punishment, Responsibility)
"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
- Toru Takemitsu
(Related: Old, Songs, Thinking)
"Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer."
- Johannes Tauler
(Related: Time, Day, Fashion, Night, Prayer)
"I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion."
- Billy Tauzin
(Related: Time, Sympathy, Crisis, Fashion, Priorities, Support)
"Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion."
- Niki Taylor
(Related: Family, Fashion, Friends, Will)
"Bravery never goes out of fashion."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
(Related: Bravery, Fashion)
"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
- Margaret Thatcher
(Related: Nothing)
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Nature, Genius, Divinity)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Old)
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Ideas, Fashion)
"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Time, Actors, Fashion)
"I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Women, Fashion)
"During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Fashion)
"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Society, Father, Thought, Being, Honor, Old, Public)
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
- Bonnie Tyler
(Related: Fashion)
"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."
- Donatella Versace
(Related: Balance, Fashion, Word)
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
- Donatella Versace
(Related: Fashion)
"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
- Donatella Versace
(Related: Happiness, Fashion, Fun, Medicine)
"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
- Gianni Versace
(Related: Dream, Fashion)
"That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live."
- Gianni Versace
(Related: Being, Dress, Fashion, Key, Want)
"When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Father, Christmas, Guidance, Old, Parents, Play, Songs)
"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Words)
"Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume."
- Vera Wang
(Related: Challenge, Fashion, Night)
"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago."
- Peter Warlock
(Related: Music, Old, Yesterday)
"The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts."
- Earl Warren
(Related: Congress, Court, Fashion, Law, Nixon, Old, Traditions, Will)
"It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate."
- Estella Warren
(Related: Fashion, Fun)
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
- Alan Watts
(Related: God, Idea, Difficulty, Old, World)
"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing."
- John Webster
(Related: Heaven, Nothing)
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
- John Webster
(Related: Devil)
"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Sex, Son, Fashion, Punk)
"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Life, Fashion, Pleasure, Worth)
"One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion."
- Eli Whitney
(Related: Work, Fashion, Tools)
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Fashion, Months, Ugliness)
"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Old)
"His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected."
- Emma Willard
(Related: Daughter, Conversation, Manufacturing, Mind, School)
"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."
- Frances E. Willard
(Related: Sympathy, Thought, Fashion)
"Fashion is more about feel than science."
- Pharrell Williams
(Related: Science, Fashion)
"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do."
- Rowan Williams
(Related: Direction, Old, Question, Temptation, Thinking)
"He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it."
- Woodrow Wilson
(Related: Man, Present, World)
"About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Time)
"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Related: War, Eyes, Fashion, Today)
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
- Mary Wortley
(Related: Company, Entertainment, Loss, Pleasure, Reading, Regret, Variety, Want, Will)
"I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology."
- Robert Wyatt
(Related: Fashion, Ideology, Youth)
"Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it."
- Bill Wyman
(Related: History, Money, Music, People, Fashion)
"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Character, Courage, Fashion)