Long Skirt Quotes

#1. The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject.

Jonathan Tropper

#2. What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

Gilbert Sorrentino

#3. Follow the only nurse rule that can be applied to wearing a mini-skirt: it should be short enough to get to the point, and long enough to cover the important stuff, all while keeping you out of trouble.

Sonja Schwartzbach

#4. Got it," I say as he hands me a pencil skirt, a crisp long-sleeved white shirt, and some low black heels. "This is what I'm wearing?" I'm a librarian. "Can I safely assume the accessories will include glasses on a chain and my hair in a bun? Should I shush people tonight?

J.A. Huss

#5. Where were we?" she said.
"Getting credit," I said.
"What about it?"
"Well, it's nice to get credit."
The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.

Jerry Spinelli

#6. I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

Fred Small

#7. A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL

Bill McGowan

#8. The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Terence McKenna

#9. Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.

Suzanne Collins

#10. It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

Thomas Campbell

#11. A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Ronald Knox

#12. Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Mark Teixeira

#13. You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Evangeline Lilly

#14. I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

Amber Heard

#15. I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

Ashley Jensen

#16. With the last of the sun flickering orange light across her face, she hitched up her long skirt and started the steep climb to the stone circle.

Valerie Biel

#17. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#18. It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

Vera Farmiga

#19. Maybe 'beautiful' isn't the proper word. It's too common, and the way you look is . . . rare. You deserve a rare compliment. One sincerely meant, and crafted just for you. So there will be no doubt.

Tessa Dare

#20. a sermon was meant to be like a woman's skirt, long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to keep one interested!

Ashwin Sanghi

#21. My favourite people to follow on Twitter are ... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

Ellie Goulding

#22. She was wearing something in purple suede that was too short for a skirt and too long for a belt.

Robert B. Parker

#23. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,

Andrew Pyper

#24. I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

Katharine Hepburn

#25. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill

#26. Sing
and your hell is heaven,
your heaven less hell.

Hilda Doolittle

#27. Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.

Gina Berriault

#28. As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

Sania Mirza

#29. A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.

Andrea Brown

#30. You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was - is - dead and scaring us?

J. Cameron McClain