170 History Of Fashion Quotes

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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Fashion goes round in circles. — Siobhan Fahey

Fashion should be stylish and fun. — Sayings

Fashion is so over the top. — Ben Stiller

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. - Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli

I’ve always kind of had this interest in fashion. — Sadie Sink

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is self confident and fearless. - Alexander McQueen

Fashion is self confident and fearless. — Alexander McQueen

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren

Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. — Oleg Cassini

Short History Of Fashion Quotes

  • Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
  • Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
  • Fashions fade, but style is eternal. — Yves SaintLaurent
  • Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has. — Paul Pogba
  • Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria
  • Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
  • Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. — Jacques Barzun
  • I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli
  • Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be — Paul Smith

History Of Fashion Image Quotes

History of fashion quote Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang

History of fashion quote Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. — Audrey Hepburn

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. — Gianni Versace

History of fashion quote Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. — Tinie Tempah

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better. — Anna Wintour

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. - Janice Dickinson

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. — Janice Dickinson

Clothes And Fashion Quotes

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion. — Sitting Bull

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy

History of fashion quote Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow you most intense obsessions mercilessly.

I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else — Rei Kawakubo

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaparelli

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli

History of fashion quote Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny.
Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld

People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. — Donna Karan

Clothing Style Quotes

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. — John Oates

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Marc Jacobs

History of fashion quote Those who tell the stories rule society.
Those who tell the stories rule society.

Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga

Most competitors prefer to show off-mass produced clothing on their catwalks, or indulge in American-style marketing. We are not interested in working this way. — Bernard Arnault

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton

History of fashion quote Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women’s clothes. — Philip Arthur Fisher

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are. — Adam Rex

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashionable Clothes Quotes

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. — Madeleine Vionnet

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. — Vivienne Westwood

History of fashion quote Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. — Ann Demeulemeester

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. — Yohji Yamamoto

I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit. — Michael Kors

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. — Pierre Cardin

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. — Jean Cocteau

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. - Mary Quant

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou

French Fashion Quotes

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. — Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, but style endures. — Coco Chanel

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization. — Diana Vreeland

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties — Fernand Braudel

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean! — W. S. Gilbert

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context. — Louis Garrel

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. — Gertrude Stein

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris. — Alexander Vassiliev

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets. — Tom Ford

Fashion And Art Quotes

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them. — Rei Kawakubo

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. — Karlie Kloss

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. — Michelle Obama

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises. — Leontyne Price

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another. — Zaha Hadid

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings. — Yves Saint Laurent

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Fashion Today Quotes

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada

I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion. — Chloe Sevigny

Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now! — Thabo Mbeki

The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession — Claudia Schiffer

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism. — Murray Bookchin

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. — Alberto Giacometti

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman. — Carolina Herrera

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. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fashion And Style Quotes

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude. — Iris Apfel

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. — Alexander McQueen

The difference between style and fashion is quality. - Giorgio Armani

The difference between style and fashion is quality. — Giorgio Armani

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. — Christian Dior

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano

Stand up straight and look people in the eye. Two old-fashioned things that stand out and never go out of style. The way you carry yourself dramatically impacts how the world will engage with you. — Sahil Bloom

Fashion Industry Quotes

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. — Jensen Huang

This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had. — James Hunt

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. — Vera Wang

Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon. — Christian Siriano

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. — Nicola Formichetti

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion. — Phillip Lim

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf

Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again. — Heidi Klum

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry. — ASAP Rocky

Fashion World Quotes

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway - Coco Chanel

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring - Mario Testino

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. - Bette Midler

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. - Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. — Miuccia Prada

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway. — Marc Jacobs

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image. — Nelson Mandela

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. — Eddie Redmayne

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle. — Ralph Lauren

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More History Of Fashion Quotes

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought. — Gary L. Francione

The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction. — Anthony Giddens

I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?" — Carine Roitfeld

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. — Anne Rice

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it. — Bill Wyman

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times. — Valerie Steele

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. — Pierre Cardin

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. — George Orwell

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected — Gottfried Bohm

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. — Nina Garcia

I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it. — Stephanie Seymour

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. — Cecil Beaton

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are. — Dinaw Mengestu

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it. — Louise Wilson

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. — Thomas Huxley

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth. — Salman Rushdie

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

Lives are not stories. A day, a month, a year, or a lifetime has no plot. Our experiences are only the raw stuff of stories. The beginnings of our lives are arbitrary; usually their endings come too soon or too late for any neat narrative conclusions.We turn our lives into stories, and, in doing so, we can stop them where we choose. Our stories do in a small way what memoirs and autobiographies do on a grander scale: they allow a self-fashioning that gives remembered lives a coherence that the day-to-day lives of actual experience lack. History, of course, also imposes coherence, but the historian works will less malleable stuff than memory. Memoirs are seamless; good histories disrupt. — Richard White

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force. — Winston Churchill

I think that a lot of our fashion history shows do touch on important issues. Fashion and Technology obviously does, because technology is impacting fashion in so many ways, from computer-assisted design to the way we actually purchase clothes online. — Valerie Steele

When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative. — Fran Lebowitz

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide. — Maya Soetoro-Ng

I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime. — David Irving

There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out. — Roger Ailes

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally. — Harry Hay

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. — Diane von Furstenberg

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. — Orson Scott Card

The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered. — Juliet B. Schor

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability. — Sam Keen

The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived. — Ronald Hutton

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! — Mary Augusta Ward

The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself. — Pat Robertson

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering. — David Letterman

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East. — Edward Gibbon

There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day. — Alex Kozinski

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. — Eric Stoltz

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. — Cyndi Lauper

The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted emerald continues to sparkle and fascinate. Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world. This powerful and universally-appealing tone translates easily to both fashion and home interiors. — Leatrice Eiseman

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living. — John Crowe Ransom

My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order. — Henry A. Kissinger

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings. — Donna J. Haraway

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