Long Skirts Quotes

#1. The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

Ashley Olsen

#2. Damn, Lyla. That's what you've been hiding under those scarves and long skirts?

Cindi Madsen

#3. Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.

Kate Williams

#4. In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.

Euzhan Palcy

#5. Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

Natalie Dormer

#6. [Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

Edna Ferber

#7. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

#8. I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

Heather Morris

#9. Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.

Charlotte Rampling

#10. If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

Clare Balding

#11. With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.

Niki De St. Phalle

#12. Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

Lucy Stone

#13. I liked long skirts," he said nostalgically. "I liked the underthings women wore. The petticoats.

Charlaine Harris

#14. She had softened at his concern for her, but his tone was back to being scathing. She deduced that his concern was not for her safety. Dealing with the dead bodies of guests who broke their necks tumbling down his staircase in too long skirts would have disturbed his schedule.

Anya Wylde

#15. I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.

Chris Benz

#16. I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

Jody Watley

#17. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Kenneth R. Miller

#18. Long chiffon pleated skirts look great with sandals or sneakers and a tank top or denim top.

Brad Goreski

#19. Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Scott McClanahan

#20. 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

#21. I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.

Theodore Roethke

#22. All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities" would have looked hopelessly naive in New York. Sylvia wanted to be hard and urban.

Elizabeth Winder

#23. She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.

Michael Chabon

#24. Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#25. Her hips were long and narrow, her bust was large, and she wore close-fitting skirts and sweaters and high heels that gave a tight arch of impatience to the muscles of her calves; her step was small and pretty and her laughter violent, total, and critical.

Saul Bellow

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

Andrea Brown

#27. surfaces are not for storage. Rather, surfaces are for activity, and should be kept clear at all other times.

Francine Jay

#28. In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Quintilian

#29. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

#30. I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Kat Graham

#31. I play for the United States of America!

Mike Eruzione

#32. The stars in the sky are the souls of the people we love. They shine so bright, not even the night can hide them. And when we're lost, they guide us.

Keri Lake

#33. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Diane Samuels

#34. We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

A.S.A Harrison

#35. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

Kim Hyesoon

#36. Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

Adelina Sotnikova

#37. You can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

John Geddes

#38. The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection

Osamu Dazai