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Quotes About Silhouette

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky. When
~ H.P. Lovecraft
word is a shadow," said the shadow, "and as such it must speak.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Moonlight shone through the window, cutting through the room at an angle.
~ Simon Wood
Then slowly, as his erratic shape approached the next guttering aura he would begin by degrees to become a silhouette, until immediately before the candle he would for a moment appear like an inky scarecrow, a mantis of pitch-black cardboard worked with strings.
~ Mervyn Peake
I looked up through a scatter of fluttering leaves silhouetted against the rosy autumn sunset.
~ Ben Carson
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
~ L'Wren Scott
On my lips, I just do a little bit of liner, just a color silhouette.
~ Elsa Hosk
Herve has that sex appeal. Certain bodies need Herve Leger badly because you have to reformulate the silhouette.
~ Max Azria
I don't force reinvention. I play with silhouette and color, since Indian as well as Caribbean women have a penchant for these.
~ Masaba Gupta
I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
~ Tyler Perry
I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette.
~ Nina Garcia
I have a recognizable silhouette.
~ Daveed Diggs
I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
~ John Rocha
Luke and Vader's light saber duel in 'Return of the Jedi' gives me chills every time. Even the still photo of the two of them in silhouette, sabers crossed, gives me a rush.
~ Paul S. Kemp
It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.
~ Toby Jones
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.
~ Tim Gunn
One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.
~ Toby Jones
DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.
~ Giles Deacon
The gloom was increased by several grand old trees
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I cannot get that beautiful afternoon out of my head, above me where I lay the grass was silhouetted against the blue of the heavens, small clouds were rushing past as the wind drove them on an endless journey.
~ Julia Lee-Booker
Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.
~ Christine and the Queens
After all, shadows themselves are born of light.
~ Stefan Zweig
Once, a moonbeam glanced off silver, illuminating the dark silhouette of Elric, but, as if repelled by the sight of a living creature on that bleak hill, the moon once again slunk behind its cloud-shield, leaving Elric thinking deeply. Leaving Elric in the darkness he desired. Thunder rumbled over distant mountains, sounding like the laughter of far-off gods. Elric shivered, pulled his blue cloak more tightly about him, and continued to stare over the misted lowlands.
~ Michael Moorcock