1813 Dresses Quotes & Sayings

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors. — Sharon Olds

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population. — Prince Philip

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. — Lou Holtz

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. — Tom Shales

The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard.
Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really. — Alden Ehrenreich

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. — Ira Sachs

Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always. — Tamas Vasary

Marconi recognized that with no revenue and no contracts and in the face of persistent skepticism, he needed more than ever to capture an ally of prominence and credibility. Through Fleming, however, Marconi also hoped to gain a benefit more tangible. His new idea, the feat he hoped would command the world's attention once and for all, would require more power and involve greater danger, physical and fiscal, than anything he had attempted before. When it came to high-power engineering, he knew, Fleming was the man to consult. UNLIKE LODGE OR KELVIN, Fleming was susceptible to flattery and needful of attention, as evidenced by the fact that upon receiving Marconi's telegram he made sure the London Times got a copy of it. The Times published it, as part of its coverage of Marconi's English Channel success. — Erik Larson

A person is "too conservative" if his conscience forbids something that I think is acceptable. — Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it. — Lino Rulli

I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else. — Hannah Harrington