Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started seeing one-strap gowns and shirts, and this bra can be worn like that.

Carolina Herrera

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Our wild boar shoot at our home in Germany is always a riot because we invite lots of friends. We spend the day out in the woods, but then we get all dressed up in long gowns to dance around in the evenings.

Jane Austen

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

David Agus

We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

Diablo Cody

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Karen Morley

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

Megan Smith

Last year, people dressed nicely, but not wearing any sort of costume or anything like that. This year, we've got sonnet-delivering outfits: Renaissance gowns and some Restoration wear. I'm personally wearing this outfit with a big skirt and a corset type top -- that'll add a fun element.

She is the epitome of the A-list Hollywood star. She set styles also. She is one of the few people that owned all of her own jewels. So consequently, her gowns were designed around the jewel. The jewel was the first thing and the gown was made as a beautiful frame.

Amy Lowell

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

Amy Lowell

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, 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.

Virginia Postrel

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

Ann Coulter

Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

Alexander Pope

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

After years of giving Mr. Blackwell great material for his list, Geena needs to tone down. Her past gowns have been outrageous and not a bit flattering. She is now playing the president of the United States and needs to look elegant and, most of all, intelligent. (Giorgio) Armani would be a great choice.

Michelle Lombardo

You put your heart and soul into being on the road with these gowns, ... These gowns are my babies.

Gale Gordon

Actually, I wanted to be a toe dancer. My mother did an act in London. She had two girls who did a little ballet number while she changed gowns between the songs she was performing. And when the ballet slippers wore out, she brought them home to me. I put them on and could walk all over the house on my toes.

An old-fashioned style is really big ? the gowns look like something their grandmother would have worn. They want it to be classic, timeless.

William Shakespeare

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all

The time is right for the women of Williamsville to have a place to shop for quality designer gowns at affordable prices.

Anna Jameson

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

We have two private lines that knock off $5,000 wedding gowns for $500.

Hilary Swank

I was blessed with many gowns to choose from, ... But when I put this on, he gasped, and I knew this was the one.

Anne Perry

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.

Anita Loos

I've always loved high style in low company.

Alice Sebold

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.

Clive James

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Douglas William Jerrold

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Reem Acra

Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and fall in love with a gown that you weren't drawn to at first.

Plutarch

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.