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Quotes About Clothes

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
~ Martin Freeman
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~ William Penn
Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of cans, no place to take a bath or nothing, clothes is all rotting off.
~ Winston Groom
They left behind a crystal wand (an arcane focus worth 10 gp), a set of fine clothes, and a small, autographed painting of a suave, dark-haired human wizard with a dove perched on his shoulder. The picture is inscribed, "Yarek-Have a magical day! Your friend, Jim.
~ Wizards of the Coast
Look," Amy said, from behind me. "They threw laundry all over your floor in there." "Yeah. And they wore the clothes first, the bastards.
~ David Wong
The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.
~ Jean Webster
Edison called Firestone "a tenderfoot," and predicted that, despite their agreement to wear old clothes for the duration of the trip, "Soon you'll be dressing up like a dude.
~ Jeff Guinn
Nothing we brought with us is from the present. Not our clothes, not our shoes. It's all old junk. Restored crap. We've been living in the past this whole time. In some sort of reenactment. And why?" She made a derisive sound. "You don't even know why.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. In the dark, the fear of an unexpected touch can mount to panic. Even clothes give insufficient security: it is easy to tear them and pierce through to the naked, smooth, defenceless flesh of the victim.
~ Elias Canetti
The Brethren? Whatever for? Do they wash a lot? Baptisms, wet clothes, that sort of thing?' 'Of course not. It was a museum piece; they took it off to sell it. They're very keen on money. I think they're dishonest, too.
~ Elizabeth Aston
Accompanying this nineteen-year-old virgin to New York City were two large suitcases- one filled with my clothes, all folded neatly in tissue, and the other packed with fabrics, trimmings, and sewing supplies, so that I could make more clothes.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Accompanying this nineteen-year-old virgin to New York City were two large suitcases- one filled with my clothes, all folded neatly in tissue, and the other packed with fabrics, trimmings, and sewing supplies, so that I could make more clothes (8).
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Can we take my car? she asked. He turned and looked at her, surprised. This will all fit in mine. I have more gear in my car trunk. It's stuff I don't always use but never know when I'll need it. Specialized equipment. Reflectors and tripods, extra flashes and a change of clothes, hiking boots and the like. Cat laughed at the expression on Travis's face. You guessed it. I keep my magic broom there, too. I was wondering where you hid it, he said mildly.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
If you ask me, it's all these skinny models that make girls anorexic, she went on, to Auntie Barbara. I can't think why they don't use real girls with a few curves. Stands to reason, Jenny. Auntie B. was as pinkly flushed as Mum. All the designers are gay—they don't want bosoms in their clothes, or bottoms, either. Not proper, girls' bottoms.
~ Elizabeth Young
Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
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~ Alice Oswald
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
~ Alicia Keys
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
~ Alison Sweeney
Dear Logan, I got all new clothes, which is NOT as exciting as it sounds. Turns out, they don't even make extreme-weather boots with sequins on them. If you ask me, they're missing out on a market. I mean, if you have to be stuck in the mud, shouldn't you at least have something pretty to look at? Maddie
~ Ally Carter
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.
~ Peter York
A lot of the clothes I wear on telly are second-hand.
~ Bettany Hughes
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.
~ Kristen Bell
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
~ Jessica Brown Findlay