Top 100 Fashions Quotes
#1. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#2. In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov
#3. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#4. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
Bram Stoker
#5. Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
I. F. Stone
#6. The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
George Bernard Shaw
#7. Change bothers me. I don't cope too well with fashions, fads and urban traffic lights.
Fennel Hudson
#8. Ever since the millennial crash, the United States has been buffeted by currency shocks, interest-rate gyrations, and financial device bubbles. Government fashions move "investment" from real estate consumption to climate distractions. It was technology alone that saved the world economy.
George Gilder
#9. Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.
Michael Jackson
#10. He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. So all in their different fashions pursued their daily lives, thoughtfully or not; everything seemed to be following is usual course, as is the way in monstrously strange circumstances when everything is at stake: we go on with our lives as though nothing were the matter.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. The world doesn't really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt - to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.
Billy Graham
#16. Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don't be just better ... be the BEST.
Tony Bowls
#17. I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Francine Mathews
#19. Jeffrey to Felicia - Given your peculiar fashions over the past four years, I'm afraid you've caused people to believe you're a little insane.
Jen Turano
#20. Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.
Claire Tomalin
#21. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#22. We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.
Glenn Miller
#23. It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
G.K. Chesterton
#25. Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.
Billy Graham
#26. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
Marcel Proust
#28. All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
Charles Baudelaire
#29. There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#30. Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?"
"I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow.
Sherwood Smith
#31. Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#33. For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#34. There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.
H.L. Mencken
#35. Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#36. We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.
Jon Bon Jovi
#37. Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
Karen Elson
#39. Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
Andrew Morton
#40. A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect ... '
FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-)
Paul Theroux
#41. What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
Jean Cocteau
#42. Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#43. Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#44. Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
Seth Godin
#46. But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.
Jonathan Swift
#47. Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements - endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart ... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.
Andre Gide
#48. A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. They eat the sewage that floats on the surface of the mass culture, digest it, and then get creative diarrhea
all at once. The turd look and smell exactly alike, and we call them this year's fashions, hit shows, books, and movies.
John Varley
#51. Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
Jasper Fforde
#52. I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper ...
Kate Bush
#53. Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#54. By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
John Leo
#55. Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
Ronald J. Sider
#56. But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.
Gail Carriger
#57. Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes they hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.
Mychal Denzel Smith
#58. DESIGN & BUILD
Faith Fashions Fate = Belief Builds Bridges
Kamil Ali
#59. The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word
the note
is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.
Neal Ascherson
#60. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.
Amor Towles
#61. Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
Erwin Chargaff
#62. There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
Jane Jacobs
#63. At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.
Tiesto
#64. Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
Jasper Fforde
#65. The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Marie De France
#66. The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!
C.F.W. Walther
#67. I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean
#68. I don't really follow any fashions. I just wear what I want to wear each day. I don't care if they clash or not.
Pixie Lott
#69. Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.
Freda Adler
#70. Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
William K. Mahony
#71. I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#72. Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
Carlos Fuentes
#73. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
Dionne Brand
#74. That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.
Mary Renault
#75. The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.
Steven Redhead
#76. I am a princess. I do not follow fashions
I make them.
Alex Flinn
#77. The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#79. Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
Avi
#80. Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.
George Eliot
#81. You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance ... But I may flout the standards? ... Of course. What do you think standards are for?
Caroline Stevermer
#82. Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.
William Shakespeare
#83. There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
Dorothy Height
#84. He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod
#85. In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.
Jessica Mitford
#86. We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.
Billy Graham
#87. Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
Charles Caleb Colton
#88. Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.
Michael Mauboussin
#89. Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
William Ralph Inge
#90. Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy
#91. The sculptor starts with a block of stone and imagines the creation within. The writer takes the reader's imagination and fashions his creation from without.
Mark A. Morris
#92. A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
#93. Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them.
Sam Ewing
#94. Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
Alex Kapranos
#95. Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
Barry Ritholtz
#96. Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
Jane Jacobs
#97. When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.
James Laver
#98. Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
Edward Abbey
#100. Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
William Shakespeare
