Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Frayn

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.

Michel Foucault

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

Patricia Velasquez

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

Patricia McConnell

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

L'Wren Scott

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

Liz Phair

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

She was telling us that he dumped her in the garbage, that he cut her clothes off, threw her shoes, threw her phone and left her.

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.

Michael Graves

On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.

Russell Crowe

But when I can't sleep at night, I design clothes, and this is something I had made up as a crew gift.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. (Psalms 35:13)

Imagine that - you don't even have to put your clothes on.

Max von Essen

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

Music in England is like clothes. It's a fashion thing. But we're still doing the same kind of music we were doing at the beginning. We've just matured.

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.

New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn't have any clothes because everything was (in New Orleans). Now it's going to be the same way.

Carl Hagelin

Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.

Allen Iverson

I don't think it's good for the league. I really don't because it kind of makes it fake. Guys wearing those clothes don't want to be wearing those clothes.

Clint Walker

I was going to take my scooter, pack a few clothes and food, and scooter all the way down to California.

I was supposed to work two or three days scouting the Houston-LA series. They told me to come up to Seattle, and I spent seven weeks up here when they made that run to the championship. So I had two days' worth of clothes for seven weeks. You figure that one out.

Chris Bryant

If we go up and grocery stores go up and clothing stores go up, gas is high right now -- everything's expensive. I don't know how we're going to withstand that. It's gonna be hard.

Ruby Rose

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.

O Nanak, the shaven-headed ones are devils. They are not pleased to hear these words. When it rains, there is happiness. Water is the key to all life. When it rains, the corn grows, and the sugar cane, and the cotton, which provides clothing for all.

Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.

Since it's a quiet day in economic news, I think retail sales numbers are the big story out there today, and they seem to be a little disappointing, especially clothing store sales.

Chris Butler

She might not have anything now but the clothes on her back, but she does have her life.

Diahann Carroll

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I felt a voice saying, 'Hey, I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,' ... And he probably said, 'I need a house, too.'

Estella Warren

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

George R. R. Martin

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

Hong Kong is not only one of the world's largest exporters of clothing and clothing accessories, but also the fashion hub of Asia.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.

Gwen Stefani

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.