Quotes of: Old-clothes Keyword

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a...

The Summer of a Dormouse

I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It w...

My Last Summer

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still...

The Trouble With Valentine's Day

By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with s...

Scott B. Pruden

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sent...

Samuel Beckett

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorb...

Christian D. Larson

Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had den...

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edi...

Joanne Harris

[ED-209 has malfunctioned during a demonstration, killing Kinney in the boardroom] The Old Man: Dick, I'm very disappointed. Dick Jones: I'm sure it's only a glitch, a temporary setback. The Old Man: [raises his voice in anger] You call this a GLITCH...

RoboCop

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The Chronoliths

All the men’s clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

Eleanor & Park

Love is friendship...just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.

A Hidden Fire

Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. "Rugged land for a rugged man.

The Highland Henchman

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Marguerite Moreau

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler

My favourite designer is Mulberry - their bags are lovely, but their clothes are amazing, I don't think people realise. I love D&G, Fendi, Moschino, Chanel, Armani - all the classics!

Pixie Lott

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

King of the Badgers

I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person," ~Emily

Robbed Virginity

Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.

Strange Bedpersons

The man had one of those dark, deep voices, the kind that made men listen and women shed their clothing.

Siren's Call

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover