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Quotes About Fitting

Window treatments are like a nice suit - you want them to fit and the tailoring to be just right.
~ Bobby Berk
It's like fitting a hand-me-down suit. It's luck. Not love. Not that it isn't nice to have luck. Maybe the only way to think of it is being at the center of all beauty. Just by chance, today we get to be in the center of all beauty.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
~ Ann Brashares
I don't want to go back into that dressing room and take off my boots and my pants and start putting on jeans only to discover that the ones you brought me are all too tight, and then when I ask for the next size up, be informed that they're the biggest size you carry. I can't take that today. Seriously, I'll blow my head off. So look at me, look at my ass, look at my gut, take it all in, and then tell me honestly if you anticipate we're going to have a problem.
~ Sarah Dunn
It is not fitting that God, before whose tribunal we must all finally stand, be subjected to our judgment — or rather to our foolish temerity. God
~ John Calvin
Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.
~ Lauren Conrad
It's true that I have sacrificed certain jobs, and it's been a matter of fitting my career into the Globe rather than the other way around.
~ Sam Wanamaker
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
~ John Marshall
New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
~ Ban Ki-moon
if in every particular action thou dost perform what is fitting to the utmost of thy power, let it suffice thee. And who can hinder thee, but that thou mayest perform what is fitting? But there may be some outward let and impediment. Not any, that can hinder thee, but that whatsoever thou dost, thou may do it, justly, temperately, and with the praise of God.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.
~ Madonna Ciccone
joined them later understood the arrangement, and fitted
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
~ Rachel McAdams
When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.
~ Andra Day
Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time! —Proverbs 15:23
~ Gary Chapman
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You come as opportunely as cheese on macaroni.
~ George Eliot
Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.
~ Rachel Riley
There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.
~ Anthony Trollope
here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
How feasible do you think that is? About as feasible as me fitting into the petite sizes at the clothing store. I can try, but it's never going to work.
~ Shirlee McCoy
Sometimes driving is like this, a kind of consolation that's taken your measure and suits you exquisitely.
~ Elizabeth Tallent
Mrs. Littnauer must have brought thirty dresses back to the fitting room for me to try on. But most of them weren't right on me. I was sixteen years old and a size sixteen, not, after all, a very promising combination. There was one rose velvet thing with a white lace collar and cuffs, cut in a princess line, which didn't look bad, but there was nothing at all sophisticated about it ... 'Put me in a pair of Mary Janes and I'll look like a five-year-old from Brobdingnag,' I said.
~ Barbara Cohen
Choose interests that are compatible with your time and energy constraints.
~ Barbara Feldon