Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomi Klein

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Thomas Carlyle

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Rodrigo Hurtado

We want to see how much we can collect this month. We already have a little room filled with clothes.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

China Machado

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

Edith Head

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

Edith Head

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Edith Head

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Eddie Izzard

They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Mark Cuban

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.