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Quotes About Garment

Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?
~ Henny Youngman
Your clothes are worn to the woof.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Understand the style of garment that adorns your body, the styles of dwellings in which you spend your leisure hours, the place in which you hunt. Understand what it means to feel the passage of time! Yes, and feel all the pain of seeing things die... Of course. You are made to triumph over time, not to run from it.
~ Anne Rice
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
~ Elizabeth Hawes
Under the guise of being a showpiece for the world where prosperity is as easily found as water in a stream, America, for all her ostensible beauty, has an ugly scar across her belly that she has tried repeatedly to suppress and keep hidden from curious onlookers. More than a few times she has almost been exposed, and this ugliness brought to light, but always another garment would quickly be thrown over the rough spot and all the turmoil and ugliness again blanketed. But not this time.
~ Sanyika Shakur
Unlike in Tunis, prostitutes can be found in all middle-class districts of Cairo, but especially those that are home to the Egyptian elite and holidaying Gulf Arabs, and I know from my years of living in Egypt that they are given to wearing the niqab (a garment covering the whole face with two eyeholes and severely discouraged in Tunisia).
~ John R. Bradley
And after all our toils and dreams and prayers, 'Tis only Love for which the future cares; Labour and fame are steps along Love's way, And art is but the garment that he wears.
~ barker elsa iv
The body is a sacred garment.
~ Martha Graham
practice walking in this garment of salvation. When your behavior is unfitting for one in My kingdom, do not try to throw off your royal robe. Instead, throw off the unrighteous behavior. Then you will be able to feel at ease in this glorious garment, enjoying the gift I fashioned for you before the
~ Sarah Young
Such audacity could never be faked—Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
~ Scott Lynch
Their garment? Have they but one? Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.
~ Mark Twain
Wear it home, it'll look like a dress.
~ Stephen King
I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
~ Erin O'Connor
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
~ Russell Smith
I've never worn a hoodie before!
~ Anna Wintour
begirt with a flowing kirtle
~ Stephen Leacock
O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty. You wrap Yourself in light as with a garment; You stretch out the heavens like a tent and lay the beams of Your upper chambers on their waters. You make the clouds Your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind. You make winds Your messengers, flames of fire Your servants. (Ps. 104:1–4)
~ Beth Moore
I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.
~ Dries van Noten
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
~ Heinrich Heine
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
~ Matthew Henry
That's a big trunk, James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly. That's just what they used to say in the ads, I said...
~ Michael Chabon
Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.
~ Hilda Doolittle
not from her dress. Possibly a sweater or outergarment of some kind
~ T. Jefferson Parker
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
~ Tariq Ramadan