Betsey Quotes & Sayings

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway. — Betsey Johnson

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer. — Betsey Johnson

Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party, because she preserved the career of Bill Clinton. — Rush Limbaugh

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. — Betsey Johnson

You have to hold onto your fantasy. — Betsey Johnson

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty. — Betsey Johnson

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress! — Sarah Gadon

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself! — Betsey Johnson

The soul wants a body so it can kick up its heels. The soul wants a wide, wide skirt to wear while it swings and sashays all the way down the aisles! — Betsey Beckman

Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you. — Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares. — Betsey Johnson

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face. — Betsey Johnson

I once saw a Betsey Johnson runway show that featured thongs and "ass cleavage," and I thought, This is the future. — Cintra Wilson

I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it. — Betsey Johnson

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back. — Betsey Johnson

I never keep anything beautiful in the closet. — Betsey Johnson

Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself. — Betsey Johnson

Making clothes involves what I like ... color, pattern, shape and movement ... I like the everyday process ... the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life ... drawing attention to her beauty and specialness ... her moods and movements ... her dreams and fantasies. — Betsey Johnson

She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more. No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been. — Charles Dickens

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts. — Betsey Johnson

Hard times always lead to something great. — Betsey Johnson

I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress. — Betsey Johnson

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer. — Betsey Johnson

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. — Betsey Johnson

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times. — Betsey Johnson

I have to be more modest now that I'm a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I'm 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, 'Stop it. Go for Chanel!' — Anna Netrebko

[In the 1960s] ... you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit. — Betsey Johnson

Benjamin Fitzpatrick was admitted to the practice of law in Alabama in 1821. Within five years, having participated in some law suits regarding conflicting property claims among slaveholders, he had built up a clientele sufficiently broad to allow him to begin acquiring slaves. In 1826 Fitzpatrick purchased three slaves for a thousand dollars; in 1827 he bought a fifteen-year-old boy for four hundred dollars. The following year he spent over five hundred dollars on a seventeen-year-old girl and her six-month-old son, $975 on a sixteen-year-old girl along with a twelve-year-old mulatto and a nine-year-old boy. Later in 1828, he added a boy named Peter and a woman named Betsey — James Oakes

Your sister Betsey Trotwood... — Charles Dickens

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in. — Betsey Johnson

"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" — Charles Dickens

In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all. — Betsey Johnson

I was a cheerleader for nine years! — Betsey Johnson

We humbly beg your kind applause, murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face. — Thomas Keneally

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things. — Betsey Johnson

When she (Miss Betsey - M. Zh.)reached the house she gave another proof of her identity. My father had often hinted that she seldom conducted herself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing the bell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing the end of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dear mother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. (Chapter I) — Charles Dickens

I think it was Betsey Johnson that said women dress for other women. If we dressed for men, we'd all run around naked. — Jillian Dodd

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after. — Jens Voigt

Girls don't dress for boys ... — Betsey Johnson

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree — Will Carleton

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better. — Betsey Johnson

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind ... — Charles Dickens

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money. — Betsey Johnson

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support. — Betsey Johnson