Romola Garai quote: "Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty."

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

Sweet Jesus, you're wearing stockings."--Christian Grey
E.L. JAMES

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
JAPANESE PROVERB

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and...
ROMOLA GARAI

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless thin...
ROMOLA GARAI

There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in ...
ROMOLA GARAI

I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many peo...
ROMOLA GARAI

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-h...
ROMOLA GARAI

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the ...
ROMOLA GARAI

I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just d...
ROMOLA GARAI

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Stor...
ROMOLA GARAI

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
ROMOLA GARAI

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimin...
ROMOLA GARAI

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people ...
ROMOLA GARAI

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - i...
ROMOLA GARAI

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed whe...
ROMOLA GARAI

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in posi...
ROMOLA GARAI

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq h...
ROMOLA GARAI

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1...
MARY QUANT

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pai...
ZOE KRAVITZ

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
ZOE SALDANA

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY

Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the ...
JOHN STEINBECK

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of...
ALBERT CAMUS

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

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwea...
CALVIN KLEIN

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
ROBERT JORDAN

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these publ...
MAAJID NAWAZ

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT

Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED

If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...

Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER

Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER

To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

She found this vintage 1950s bra and slip with the tags still on it and told me back then that was m...
ANGIE HARRELL

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing ...
MARY HARRON

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
PHIL GRAMM

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as cre...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.
ALEXIS ARGUELLO

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
FEDERICA MONTSENY

Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that,...
DAN CASTELLANETA

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

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK

Our personal belief is that God creates life from conception, and no one but God can take it away.
GREGORY ROWLAND

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN

For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm weari...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the mu...
ALFRED EINSTEIN

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS

Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as w...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA

I was into grunge, the heavy, distorted guitars, bands like Nirvana. Although, we weren't that good....
JOSH CLARK

There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear.
TOM PERROTTA

Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
JOHN WILSON

With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conse...
WINNIE HARLOW

One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heig...
MARY GAITSKILL

Oh lovely snowball, packed with care, smack a head that's unaware! Then with freezing ice to spare, ...
BILL WATTERSON

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were...
DITA VON TEESE

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

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

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

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

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