Evening Gown Sayings

#1. A pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high
prom ...
The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.

Twiggy

#3. [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

#4. She went as a "formal apology": she wore a floor-length evening gown we found at Goodwill for ten dollars, and she had a sign around her neck, written in calligraphy, which said, I'm sorry.

Jenny Han

#5. I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [ ... ]

Lauren Child

#6. She looked like she was going to a party where the theme was Most Sparkly Evening Gown, or maybe Quickest Way to Blind Someone.

Julie Kagawa

#7. I hate you, wardrobe. But here is what's going to happen. I will close the doors, say a magic word, open the doors, and you will present me with a suitable evening gown.
Work, dammit.

A.W. Exley

#8. You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.

Faith Hunter

#9. spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden - tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" - was not a thing to be forgotten.

Peter Kurth

#10. I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

Thom Yorke

#11. When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.

Paul Silway

#12. People feel completely anonymous online. They can say whatever they want, do whatever they want, why not go the next step and kill people through the Internet?

Shane Dawson

#13. It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Rebecca West

#14. The thing about hitting bottom is that, in the middle of it, sometimes you don't know if you're really hitting bottom or just bouncing off ledges on your way further down.

Frederick Weisel

#15. To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#16. Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

David Sobel

#17. We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

Mao Zedong

#18. Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

Peter Hoeg

#19. It was nice talking to her. Comfortable. Like an old pair of jeans -
"But I still have to arrest you."
- that had been rolled in a cactus plant.

Darynda Jones

#20. He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

Erin Morgenstern

#21. Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

Randy Pausch

#22. If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.

Zooey Deschanel

#23. I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Anton Corbijn

#24. A ferocious growl drew my gaze to the back of the room, where a hairy beast wore a yellow ball gown. I tried to block out the memory of Beauty in that dress earlier this evening.

Betsy Schow

#25. May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

Kimber Simpkins

#26. Conservation must become before recreation.

Prince Charles

#27. I say, you look smashing this evening," Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

Jen Turano