Quotes About Mannequins

#1. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.

Roy Blount Jr.

#3. I noticed that in Tokyo people didn't smell. It was funny. I couldn't smell them, and they didn't say very much: the trains were packed but it was quite silent, like being jammed into a carriage with a thousand shop-window mannequins.

Mo Hayder

#4. She looked like a real woman in a city of mannequins.

Marshall Thornton

#5. I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

Kirsten Dunst

#6. Because she wasn't human, Chaol realized, gaping at her from where he still crouched over Fleetfoot.
No - she wasn't human at all.
Celaena was Fae.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. On the opposite side, the mannequins stood like witnesses. They were serious and ludicrously stylish. It was hard to shake the feeling that they were watching everything.

Markus Zusak

#8. I love fake people provided they are mannequins.

Pushpa Rana

#9. The hot blue-glass eyes of the mannequins watched as the ladies drifted down the empty river bottom street, their images shimmering in the windows like blossoms seen under darkly moving waters.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Look Samuel!" She points to the couple - I noticing a twig sticking out of her hair. "Mannequins.

Nathan Reese Maher

#11. This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive.

Will Cuppy

#13. In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Herbert Hoover

#14. I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like booty in here" because they knew me from Scream Queens.

Niecy Nash

#15. It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Samuel Johnson

#16. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Diana Vreeland

#17. A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

Andre Maurois

#19. I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.

Robert Schimmel

#21. From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

Julia Gregson

#22. Candy loved to shop and she couldn't seem to shop smiling. They'd gone out the front door of The Cookie Jar and into the next building over. There were party dresses on the mannequins in the windows, and Hannah has said they were going to buy something for her to wear to the party tomorrow night.

Joanne Fluke

#23. Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

Walter Benjamin

#24. Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Alan Moore

#25. Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

Drew Carey

#26. These models - these mannequins - are perfectly professional, and he hates all professionalism. He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit. He

Stephen King

#27. The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Robert Frost

#28. Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

Amber Heard

#29. Sarcasm: what they have in New York instead of jacuzzis.

Fran Lebowitz

#30. from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN

If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood.

Sam Pink

#31. I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Alan Keyes

#32. We sat like store mannequins, not moving a muscle, following it with our eyes. I looked for something to kill it with, but there was nothing.
-Russell Ray Teague

James Aura

#33. It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet.

Michelle Tea

#34. Mannequins can't dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them.

Marty Rubin

#35. Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. 1 John 3:1

Beth Moore

#36. I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Wangari Maathai

#37. Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Grace Jones

#38. Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

Mark Twain

#39. There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

Sarah Vowell

#40. In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life.

Marty Rubin

#41. I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.

Susanna Kearsley