Quotes About Ball Gowns

#1. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

Michael Shnayerson

#2. People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

Patti Smith

#3. You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns.

Alyxandra Harvey

#4. If there's one thing I've learned from being in the Selection, it's that some girls have a frightening killer instinct. Don't let the ball gowns fool you, she finished with a smile.

Kiera Cass

#5. I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.

Jade Jagger

#6. I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

Julie Macklowe

#7. Take care of it," he demanded of Shanti over his shoulder. "We don't need a bunch of dicks wagging around this city."

"You already have a bunch of dicks wagging around the city," Shanti yelled back. "They're the ones barking orders.

K.F. Breene

#8. You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

James Fenimore Cooper

#9. The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

Paul Simon

#10. I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

Jerry Reed

#11. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#12. A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

Henry Beard

#13. The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

George Santayana

#14. Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

Elle Fanning

#15. Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Honore De Balzac

#16. 'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

Justin Timberlake

#17. He was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel

Karl Marlantes

#19. For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded through the village streets with a crystal ball, followed by a retainer in gold body paint.

Scot D. Ryersson

#20. What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe