Top 27 Taffeta Quotes
#1. Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.
Margaret Atwood
#2. I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
Ellen Barkin
#3. Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table.
Colleen Hoover
#4. Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
Michael Jackson
#5. Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that ... he is a genius.
Christian Kane
#6. I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.
Greg Evigan
#7. I slipped the acres of pink taffeta over my head and struggled to get it zipped. What had originally been a dress from the Little House on the Prairie collection was now straight out of the Little Whore-house on the Prairie collection.
Janet Evanovich
#8. I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.
Mo Ibrahim
#9. I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.
Chelsea Krost
#10. A pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high
prom ...
The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#11. There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
Oscar De La Renta
#12. Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#13. Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
Matthew Arnold
#15. I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
Belva Plain
#16. What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#17. Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
William Shakespeare
#18. We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.
Carl Sagan
#19. The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.
Sam Harris
#20. God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.
Ozzy Osbourne
#21. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.
Denise Levertov
#22. Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.
Francesca Lia Block
#23. When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
Gabrielle Roth
#24. Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
Figures pedantical
these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
William Shakespeare
#25. You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.
Milan Kundera
#26. Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
William Shakespeare
#27. In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
Beatrix Potter
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