Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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EDDIE VEDDER When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also ...
NAOMI WOLF The glass of fashion and the mould of form
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not...
ANNA WINTOUR The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Fran is a large and brutal storm, and she is not to be trifled with in any shape, way, fashion or fo...
DAVID BEASLEY My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
ANNE ROBINSON Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a sp...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spir...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of ...
ROBIN COUSINS I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W...
KATIE MCGRATH American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story...
CHESTER HIMES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ.
SEAN FEUCHT Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
OSCAR WILDE Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Any form of increase should be directed at possessing something
SUNDAY ADELAJA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Now as they made their way through the exuberantly crowded village, Daisy understood what Westcliff ...
LISA KLEYPAS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.
ASHLEY MADEKWE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist...
ECKHART TOLLE The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtai...
MARCEL PROUST A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six m...
OSCAR WILDE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY People love escapism and there should be a place for it.
TOM HIDDLESTON Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion.
BILL JAMES I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"
There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.
His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Do not be perturbed and deluded by seeing such a terrible form of Mine as this. With fearless and ch...
BHAGAVAD GITA Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be so...
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as ag...
MARION MARECHAL-LE PEN We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
MIROSLAV VOLF it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that impriso...
JEFF BINGAMAN Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form
SINCLAIR LEWIS When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
FERDINAND PORSCHE Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
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ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
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ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
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ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
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ALEXANDER HAIG The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
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LAMAR ALEXANDER There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
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DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
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ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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EBEN ALEXANDER The honor of a nation is its life.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
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ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
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ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
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ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE