quotes about Gowns
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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.
-- Alice Sebold -
I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.
-- Amy Lowell -
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin
-- Amy Lowell -
In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.
-- Amy Lowell -
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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.
-- Amy Lowell -
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
-- Anita Loos -
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
-- Anne PerrySource : Anne Perry (2010). “Belgrave Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel”, p.83, Ballantine Books
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You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
-- Carolina Herrera -
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Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.
-- Dorothy West -
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
-- Douglas William JerroldSource : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.28
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Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.
-- Eileen Chang -
Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.
-- Eloisa James -
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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.
-- Jerry Reed -
You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.
-- Jessica Day George -
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[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.
-- Kim Campbell -
when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
-- Laetitia PilkingtonSource : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.156, University of Georgia Press
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I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
-- Leona Lewis -
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
-- Marguerite Young -
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I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.
-- Mindy Kaling -
I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.
-- Patricia Heaton -
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.
-- Richard HofstadterSource : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage
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It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.
-- Sigmund Freud -
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
-- Stella GibbonsSource : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
-- Susanna Clarke -
Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.
-- Thelma Golden -
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
-- Thomas Brooks -
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My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
-- Vera Wang -
Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
-- Walter Scott -
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
-- Wilkie Collins -
I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.
-- Amy JacksonSource : "Ek Deewana Tha's Amy Jackson talks Bollywood!". Interview with Nila Choudhury, urbanasian.com. February 9, 2012.
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I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.
-- Austin ScarlettSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.
-- Rene Marie