Quotes About Pleated

#1. She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.

A. Lee Martinez

#2. She seemed to fold into herself, like a pleated wing. Her pain antagonized me. I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. But she held it in where it could lap up into her eyes.

Toni Morrison

#3. Yeah, it's real easy to look in the mirror and be proud when you're wearing pleated shorts. And you know what's really pathetic? I don't even have any dividends to get tax-decreased. When'll they cut taxes on not-having-health-insurancends?

David Rees

#4. My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Maira Kalman

#5. Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon

Cassandra Clare

#6. The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

Jason Wu

#7. Long chiffon pleated skirts look great with sandals or sneakers and a tank top or denim top.

Brad Goreski

#8. I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a bank manager than someone who lived on a windswept island with one phone and no paved roads.

Ransom Riggs

#9. traditional Winterian clothing for women consists of pleated, ivory, floor-length dresses, most of the men wear blue tunics and pants under lengths of white fabric that wrap in an X around their torsos.

Sara Raasch

#10. This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

Tana French

#11. 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

#12. Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#13. I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

Dean Koontz

#14. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. I would have to say that I'm haunted. I'm haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won't be satisfied unless I do great work.

Lemon Andersen

#17. The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

John D. Rockefeller

#18. She's gone, but I can be happy. I can be in love. I can be both those things and scared too, and I am. I am, and this is what life is.

Elizabeth Scott

#19. I'm going to get something from the salad bar. Do you want a Frosty from Wendy's, Alex?

Bryan Norford

#20. Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

William Stanley Jevons