Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

Virginia Woolf

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

Wallace Shawn

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

Walker Percy

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

William Gurnall

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

William Powell

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

William Camden

God sendeth cold after clothes.

William Butler Yeats

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

William John Wills

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

Woody Allen

I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes.

Woody Allen

If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting

William Shenstone

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

Sarah Burton

The McQueen woman doesn't want to feel casual. It's not that kind of world. When you put on the clothes, they make you stand differently, feel differently. It was about how to do that but make it feel light. I've always been part of Lee's romantic side, that's what I love.

Sara Blakely

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

Saoirse Ronan

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

Samuel Pepys

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

Samuel Beckett

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Sally Ride

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.

Wendy Liebman

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.

Wendy Cope

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

Virginia Graham

a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

Tory Burch

I just like easy clothes - comfort.

Ursula Andress

If the role demands it, then naturally I will remove my clothes.

Tyra Banks

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

Tyra Banks

As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.

Twiggy

You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.

Satish Kumar

Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

Yvonne Strahovski

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

Yves Saint Laurent

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Yves Saint Laurent

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

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.