Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Laver

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

James Laver

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

Eric Stoltz

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

Emma Watson

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

Emma Watson

I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

Emilia Clarke

The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.

Heidi Klum

I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.

John McCain

The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.

John Galliano

McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.

John Bercow

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

Joe Jonas

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

Joan Rivers

I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.

Joan Rivers

"I wouldn't go over here to Lisa Rinna and I would say 'Are those breasts real, are you wearing underwear?'"

Joan Rivers

I'm sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn't.

Joan Rivers

I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'

Joan Rivers

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.

Joan Rivers

My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

Joan Rivers

Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because they get the rings under water. When it comes up, it's garbage. Jewish, big rings. Episcopalian big rings. Italians-the best, because they get them off of dead people, and second wives get the biggest rings of all.

Jimmy Wales

Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.

Georg Simmel

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Geoffrey Beene

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

Geoffrey Beene

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Francois Fenelon

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

George Crabbe

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Louis Armstrong

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

Lori Loughlin

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Lori Loughlin

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.

Loretta Young

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

M. H. Abrams

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Lorde

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

Loren Eiseley

The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.

Gail Carriger

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

Gail Carriger

Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.