Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Poitier

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

Sebastian Horsley

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

Sebastian Horsley

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

Seth Godin

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Sloane Stephens

Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see.

Sky Ferreira

The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

Siobhan Fahey

Fashion goes round in circles.

Simon Winchester

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

Sofia Coppola

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

Socrates

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Mercedes Lackey

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

Melanie Fiona

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

Michelle Rodriguez

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, Talon. Towels look really good on you. You go outside like that and you’ll start a whole new fashion craze. (Sunshine) Do you always say everything that comes to your mind? (Talon) Mostly. I do have some thoughts I keep to myself. I used to not care and would say anything at all, but then one time my college roommate called the psycho unit on me. You know, they really do have white coats. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why are you talking to the King Loser Dork? You want to talk about ugly? Look at what he’s wearing. (Stone) I like a man who takes fashion chances. It’s the mark of someone who lives by his own code. A rebel. A real lone wolf is a lot sexier than a pack animal who follows orders and can’t have an opinion unless someone else gives it to him. (Nekoda)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.

John P. Kotter

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

Norman Granz

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.

Nina Hagen

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

Nina Garcia

The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not.

Nina Garcia

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

Nina Garcia

Style is like a muscle: you have to exercise it regularly or you'll lose it.

Nina Garcia

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

Neil Kinnock

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

John Newton

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

John Webster

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

John Wesley

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

John Waters

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

John Varvatos

I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.

John Slattery

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

Marie de France

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Theodore Zeldin

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.