Pleats Quotes

#1. The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.

Ayn Rand

#2. She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.

Kathryn Stockett

#3. I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

David Bailey

#4. Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Denise Levertov

#5. I handed him a beaker and toyed with the pleats of my skirt. The folds kept rippling against my knees in a distracting way. It was one of Naomi's additions to my wardrobe. I quickly decided that I hated it.

Andrea Cremer

#6. You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

Issey Miyake

#7. The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?

Rei Kawakubo

#8. Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

Gary McCord

#9. Slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle

Don DeLillo

#10. I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

Tom Brady

#11. I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Mary Quant

#12. I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

Giambattista Valli

#13. Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Helen Rowland

#14. Government regulations had limited fabric lengths, banished pleats, and forbade having more than one pocket. Men now had a slim trim in the pant legs and women looked more military - gray flannel suits, low-heeled shoes in polished fake leather, shoulder-strap bags, berets and felt cloche hats.

Gregory Benford

#15. As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.

Nina Garcia

#16. Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

Mike Rowe

#17. Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#18. Audrey Griffin's eyes were wild, and she had a big smile as usual, and she was shaking a piece of paper at us. Her gray hair was coming out of its ponytail, and she was wearing clogs, and under her down vest you could see the pleats on her jeans bulging out. It was hard not to watch.

Maria Semple

#19. Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

Anne Michaels

#20. Come on," he said in a bored voice to the shadow. "We have to clean house first.

J.R. Ward

#21. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry Truman

#22. I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

Hoda Kotb

#23. It is good when you score lots of goals, but it is hard.

Alexander Ovechkin

#24. I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Marianne Williamson

#25. A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

George Farquhar

#26. I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.

James Redfield

#27. When its dark enough you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

#28. If you're making a social call, don't call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people need a respite from their work - a time to unwind, uninterrupted.

Letitia Baldrige

#29. What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.

Madonna Ciccone

#30. I am with the Hot Sexy Banking Corporation. As all the other banks are going bust, they are just getting bustier.

Robert Clark

#31. I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

Valerie Azlynn