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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.


Edith Head

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EDITH HEAD Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
MARILYN MONROE If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for im...
ADAM GRANT When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to...
RONALD KNOX It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
JILL SOLOWAY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ...
HECTOR GARCIA To show your appreciation of generosity you should not finish all the food. If you finish, the host ...
ANDREW WILLIAMSON We're obviously not good enough to just show up and win.
CHRIS SHAW “You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring it to you in proofs to show tha...
WILL ROGERS A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous p...
MARYA MANNES Show me your deepest scars so together we can figure out how to turn them into art.. maybe it'll not...
HIMANI JAYAS Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safet...
MIR NASIR HOSSAIN If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn...
BOB GREEN It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous p...
MARYA MANNES Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.
ALESSIA CARA I think we've played hard enough to show the (selection) committee we're a good enough team to play ...
LATOYA DAVIS Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectatio...
CURTIS ADAMS If a no-hitter comes, I'll take it. I don't go out there expecting no-hitters, but I was lucky enoug...
PEDRO MARTINEZ If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
JEROME K. JEROME Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with eno...
MARYA MANNES You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Turn loose and have fun. Give the audience a show.
ROY ACUFF How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is not enough to show leaflets and films against racism in our stadiums.
GERARDO GONZALEZ He's keen to show what he can do, he's done enough to suggest it will be well worth having a look at...
STUART PEARCE It's so strange how people can be judgmental when they see a pregnant woman dressed in high heel...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
JEROME K. JEROME Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more tha...
G.A. AIKEN A moose head is something to be proud of -- something to mount and show off.
DIANA CABRERA We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to sh...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.
ANN COULTER A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make su...
PHOEBE STONE When you are winning, your strengths show and your weaknesses don't. We can't dwell on this; you can...
FRANK CACCKELLO I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG In a price-fixing case, it's not enough to just show that ultimately competitors are just charging t...
JAMES WADE You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you ...
JEANINE HENNING NHAKIRA A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to c...
SHORT QUOTES A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to c...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
KATHRYN STOCKETT 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE Robert Herring had enough trust in me to think I could carry my own show.
TOMI LAHREN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Be bold enough to use your voice., brave enough to listen your heart and strong enough to live life ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's one of the things that you fight though when your car is good enough to win, your teammates car...
KYLE BUSCH When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also
OSCAR WILDE The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHE I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think t...
GRANT SHOW I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think ...
GRANT SHOW A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and w...
GRANT SHOW I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got...
GRANT SHOW CSI
GRANT SHOW We have seating for 150 people, so we can present films and have meetings there. We have a complete ...
FRANCIS SHOW We decided to incorporate the school inside our center. It is furnished with its original benches an...
FRANCIS SHOW I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN The earliest bird gets the worm, only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th...
THORNTON WILDER It's a celebratory show, so we picked upbeat music that's bombastic enough to keep people entertaine...
JACKIE DEMPSEY A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cov...
RONALD KNOX But he's also nice enough to the younger guys to show them what to do and how to do things correctly...
MARK SOMMER Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER I hope that now I have enough strength to come out and show them all. I think I do.
EVI SACHENBACHER Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG

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EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG