Dowdy Quotes

#1. A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.

Anne Stuart

#2. I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#3. Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.

Dante Alighieri

#4. London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss.

Tyne O'Connell

#5. The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

Paul Harris

#6. I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Keith Miller

#7. Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments) ...

C.S. Lewis

#8. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

Jane Green

#9. But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

Oscar Wilde

#10. It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.

Zac Efron

#11. In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Bebe Neuwirth

#12. S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

Lucas Remmerswaal

#13. Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

Emilie Loring

#14. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

#15. In your love, I dive,
to find the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

Warren Buffett

#17. He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.

Sara Sheridan

#18. One lajdak doesn't make a Poland. Keep quiet, pretty boy, eat your candy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#20. William glanced at the captain. The way she sat suggested she was tense - and that she disliked the princess on sight. William wasn't sure why, but he knew that women tended to pick up on subtle points men missed. Or maybe she just felt dowdy when compared to the princess.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#21. I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

Tony Randall

#22. Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Dorothy Parker

#23. If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

Brooke Astor

#24. I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.

Danilo Kis

#25. That dowdy little prig is that good in bed.

Catherine Coulter