Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Spurgeon

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Al Jarreau

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

Chris Abani

All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not to have to, but whatever the reason, these characters I fashion go before us and come back transformed for us. For me, at least.

Chris Abani

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

Chloe Sevigny

I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

Chloe Sevigny

I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.

Chloe Sevigny

Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.

China Machado

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

David Lauren

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

David LaChapelle

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation,

David LaChapelle

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

Dave Barry

I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including: Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark.

Dave Barry

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Dave Barry

[There is] a breed of fashion models

Dave Barry

We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.

Dave Barry

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

Bryant Gumbel

If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?

Cary Grant

I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

Carolina Herrera

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

Carolina Herrera

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

Carolina Herrera

When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.

Carolina Herrera

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

Carolina Herrera

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

Carolina Herrera

Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.

Carolina Herrera

Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.