Famous Quotes & Sayings

Overall, (the recovery) is progressing forward in a well-balanced fashion.

Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.

Beck

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

Azzedine Alaia

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Azzedine Alaia

Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

Azzedine Alaia

I make clothes, women make fashion.

Azzedine Alaia

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

We need people to fill out all the fields in a meaningful fashion. Everyone ought to know what's going on.

C. S. Lewis

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

C. S. Lewis

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

Cecil Beaton

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

Cecil Beaton

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Bill Bryson

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Bill Bryson

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

Betsey Johnson

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

Betsey Johnson

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.

Betsey Johnson

In the 60′s there was a look. In the 70′s there was a look, and in the 80′s. Now, it's a free-for-all.

Betsey Johnson

Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

Ashley Tisdale

I love clothes and I love fashion.

Ashley Tisdale

Music and fashion inspire each other.

Ashton Kutcher

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

I think they've set the stage in a very positive fashion to now be judged on their fundamental performance as opposed to the historical nightmares relative to the merger and online division.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Bill Vaughan

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Bill Blass

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

Bill Blass

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

Bill Blass

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Bill Blass

When in doubt, wear red.

Bill Blass

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Bill Bryson

I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.