I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
~By Annni-Frid Lyngstad ~
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
~By Kathie Lee Gifford ~
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
~By Estella Warren ~
And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
~By James MacArthur ~
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
~By William Shakespeare ~
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
~By Murray Kempton ~
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
~By Greg Egan ~
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
~By John Hume ~
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
~By Calvin Klein ~
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
~By Roland Barthes ~
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
~By Gordon Parks ~
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
~By Dave Barry ~
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
~By Loretta Young ~
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
~By Jay Chiat ~
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
~By John Locke ~
There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
~By Calvin Klein ~
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
~By Carly Simon ~
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
~By David Bailey ~
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
~By Kary Mullis ~
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
~By Geoffrey Beene ~
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
~By Jay Roach ~
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
~By Gilda Radner ~
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
~By Queen Marie of Romania ~
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
~By Meg Tilly ~
Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.
~By Todd English ~
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
~By Coco Chanel ~
I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.
~By Jaime Pressly ~
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
~By Russell Baker ~
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
~By David Duchovny ~
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.
~By Bill Toomey ~
I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
~By Fantasia Barrino ~
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
~By Mary Quant ~
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
~By Rowan Williams ~
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
~By Carrie Donovan ~
I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.
~By Christine McVie ~
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
~By Marie de France ~
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
~By Adolf Loos ~
People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
~By Coco Chanel ~
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
~By William Hurt ~
People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
~By Bill Blass ~
You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
~By Shalom Harlow ~
They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
~By Ralph Lauren ~
So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
~By Bruce Oldfield ~
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.
~By Adriana Lima ~
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
~By Jules Renard ~
Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.
~By Mike Judge ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
I have very old-fashioned tastes.
~By Jerry Hall ~
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
~By Tony Visconti ~
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~By Stephen Rea ~
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