Quotes About Clothing Sizes

#1. Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

Virginia Postrel

#2. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

Scilla Elworthy

#3. I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Bill Budge

#4. Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like] ... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

Bob Lutz

#5. The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

L. Todd Rose

#6. I just can't muster up enough pride for a town whose most cosmopolitan area is the Taco Bell car park on a saturday night

Chris Colfer

#7. One of my favorite dialogue pieces from Black Creek Burning:
"It was a polite, white lie," Brie whispered.
"I'll have to remember you think that way," Nathan said.

R.T. Wolfe

#8. "Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

Charles Dickens

#9. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.

K.A. Barson

#10. CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

Bob Lutz

#11. A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.

Charles R. Ringma

#12. A falling star is actually on fire as it enters the atmosphere, so if I were to try and catch one, I'm pretty sure there would be some pain involved. Though, I would suppose some pain would be worth it to find something so rare.

Sadie Grubor

#13. When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

Cristiano Da Matta

#14. I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

Martin Freeman

#15. You cannot love anything or anyone more than you love yourself and you can't love yourself unless you see yourself whole. If you secretly disapprove of any part of yourself, you will secretly hate part of the One who made you. Can you understand that?

Ted Dekker