Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Gloria Estefan

Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!

Le Corbusier

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

Charles Koppelman

I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.

Mary Smith

We still get a lot done in a voluntary fashion.

Henry Fielding

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Derek Blasberg

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Ludwig von Mises

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.

Warren Bottino

We've been fortunate each year to get 400-500 people. The fashion show really works.

Gore Vidal

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Samuel Butler

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Lauren Oliver

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.

Alan Dershowitz

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Ludwig von Mises

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Ludwig von Mises

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Heinrich Himmler

Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

James A. Baldwin

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

E. B. White

When I got recruited, they told me it never rained (here).

Jack Johnson

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

William Shakespeare

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

Bob Schneider

We'll go out when it's raining, but not after it's been raining all day.

Charlotte Bronte

So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

Charlie Chaplin

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

Charles de Lint

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

Charles Dickens

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.