Wearing Quotes - page 4

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. (Gary Oldman)
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots. View quote
Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. View quote
Albert Einstein
[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even-"at least not systematic”; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, "Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”. View quote
Paul Rudnick
And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up. View quote
Paul Rudnick
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this. View quote
Anne Enright
I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That's what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night. Then he'd whispered. "And you're not even wearing Spanx. View quote
Meg Cabot
Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed. View quote
Meg Cabot
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? View quote
Naomi Campbell
We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested. (Nina Garcia)
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight. View quote
Andrea Camilleri
A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should either be nude or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. View quote
Rick Riordan
The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me. View quote
Rick Riordan
Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I'm telling you, it'll wake you up quick. View quote
Rick Riordan
It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. View quote
Rick Riordan
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile. View quote
Rick Riordan
He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. View quote
Rick Riordan
Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly... Tally might eat you. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen! (Sophie Kinsella)
One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us. View quote
Steve Harvey
Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well. View quote
Wayne Rooney
I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over. View quote
Famke Janssen
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. View quote
Phyllis McGinley