Top 91 Loos'd Quotes
#1. From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
Walt Whitman
#2. He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
Matthew Arnold
#3. I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Adolf Loos
#4. So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
Anita Loos
#5. The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Adolf Loos
#6. Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
Adolf Loos
#7. I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
Anita Loos
#8. So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.
Anita Loos
#9. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.
Adolf Loos
#10. I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
Anita Loos
#11. I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.
Rebecca Loos
#12. A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ...
Anita Loos
#13. Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
Anita Loos
#14. I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion.
Anita Loos
#15. I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
#16. In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
Anita Loos
#17. Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
Anita Loos
#18. I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.
Rebecca Loos
#19. Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
Anita Loos
#20. Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos
#21. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos
#22. Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
Anita Loos
#23. Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos
#24. There's nothing colder than chemistry.
Anita Loos
#25. I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
Rebecca Loos
#26. The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
#27. I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
Rebecca Loos
#28. It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Anita Loos
#29. Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
Rebecca Loos
#30. I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it.
Rebecca Loos
#31. I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Anita Loos
#32. Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
Anita Loos
#33. Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever
Anita Loos
#34. A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Anita Loos
#35. And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
Anita Loos
#36. I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
Anita Loos
#37. I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
Anita Loos
#38. All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
Adolf Loos
#39. I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.
Anita Loos
#40. Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Adolf Loos
#42. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
#43. Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos
#44. I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
Rebecca Loos
#45. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
Anita Loos
#46. The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
Adolf Loos
#47. The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
Adolf Loos
#48. I did not know what my future was going to hold.
Rebecca Loos
#49. Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it.
Christina Bartolomeo
#50. Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
Anita Loos
#51. I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
Anita Loos
#52. I've always loved high style in low company.
Anita Loos
#53. On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
#54. I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
Anita Loos
#55. The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf Loos
#56. Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
Anita Loos
#57. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos
#58. One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
Anita Loos
#59. Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos
#60. I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
Anita Loos
#61. In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
Anita Loos
#62. Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos
#63. You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.
Anita Loos
#64. Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Anita Loos
#65. I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
Anita Loos
#66. It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
Adolf Loos
#67. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
#68. I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
Anita Loos
#69. Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
Anita Loos
#70. If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
Adolf Loos
#71. And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
Anita Loos
#72. I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
Anita Loos
#73. Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos
#74. I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.
Rebecca Loos
#75. Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
Adolf Loos
#76. the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use
Adolf Loos
#77. Gentlemen prefer blondes ... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
Anita Loos
#78. It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos
#79. Does this boat go to Europe, France?
Anita Loos
#80. Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
Anita Loos
#81. At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Adolf Loos
#82. Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
Anita Loos
#83. I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
Rebecca Loos
#84. Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
Anita Loos
#85. To fish someone out of the men's loos.
Jojo Moyes
#86. The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos
#87. If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
Anita Loos
#88. A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
#89. The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Adolf Loos
#90. Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
#91. Dave said, "Tarts' wardrobe?" "Loos." Dave said with sort of admirationosity in his voice, "Outstanding" midnight
Louise Rennison
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