Quotes About White Gown

#1. Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Mason Cooley

#2. Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Tony Benn

#3. She lifts the white gown. "The prince loves white." Her fingers caress the satin. "He had your betrothal gown made just for you."
( ... ) Anger boils under my skin. "Then he can wear it," I snap.

Trisha Wolfe

#4. Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Epictetus

#5. I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him ... I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens.

Jean Genet

#6. The man will wait in front of the altar in his black suit. The woman will walk up the aisle in her white gown. The vow, the ring, the kiss.... All kind of romance. A gate to happiness. They call it marriage.

Yuli Pritania

#7. I wore a white velvet gown, similar to my Smolny dress. I looked forward to the day when I could wear any color in public other than white. White was innocent. My soul was not.

Robin Bridges

#8. Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Horace

#9. The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.

Sheila Cassidy

#10. Tiny white flowers sprinkled the upper part of the gown like glimpses of stars at dusk, while the gathered waist and skirt darkened into solid twilight.

Suzanne Enoch

#11. Flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

Sinclair Lewis

#12. 'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

Jennifer Chiaverini

#13. The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

Frederick Lenz

#14. You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.

Faith Hunter

#15. We talked about desire and being jealous,
Our conversation a loose single gown
Or a white picnic tablecloth spread out
Like a book of manners in the wilderness.

Seamus Heaney

#16. I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit ... I gotta use it.

Rakim

#17. The Russians have a saying. Offer a man a finger, and he will take your hand - if not your arm.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#18. I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

David Tennant

#19. I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.

Jennifer Echols

#20. Omit the non-essential.

Per Mollerup

#21. We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Bill McKibben

#22. I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

#23. What?" his gruff voice scolded. "You were expecting to see Drake Junior?"

He clucked his tongue at her.

"You have'nt even bought me dinner yet."

~Drake

Jennifer Turner

#24. Pride will spit in pride's face.

Thomas Fuller