Frumpy Clothes Quotes & Sayings

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small. — Bobby Womack

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. — Lou Brock

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews. — Joanne Harris

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ... — Taylor Caldwell

Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible. — Benjamin Bloom

Thinking the guy up ahead knows what he's doing is the most dangerous religion there is. — Kurt Vonnegut

To teach is to delight. — Horace

The charitable thing to do would be to make myself as homely looking as possible, which would probably make it much easier on him, but I didn't want his parting memories of me to be that I was a frumpy mess dressed in tomboy clothes.
I do have some feminine pride after all. I still want him to squirm. At least a little. — Colleen Houck

Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning. — Rhoda Janzen

You're fucking special and if I want to act all possessive over you when some stupid art guy hits on you right in front of me, I'm going to. Either that or I'm going to have Ethan chase him down right now so I can punch him in the face. — Jessica Sorensen

I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science, I set up in the courtyard and examined local specimens. Pointless pleasure, stripped of ends. The ancient contadino from across the road, long since convinced that we were mad, could not resist coming over for a look.
I showed him where to put his eye. I watched him, thinking, this is how we attach to existence. We look through awareness's tube and see the swarm at the end of the scope, taking what we come upon there for the full field of sight itself.
The old man lifted his eye from the microscope lens, crying.
Signore, ho ottantotto anni e non ho mai Saputo prima che cosa ci fosse in una goccia d'acqua. I'm eighty-eight years old and I never knew what was in a droplet of water. — Richard Powers

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us? — Plutarch

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill. — Nora Roberts

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting. — Mason Cooley

I'm happy; I'm a happy person. — Brian Wilson

Only a few more steps, I kept telling myself, just a few more steps and I--The box slipped out of my grasp. My knees bent as I tried to regain my grip but it was too late. The box full of totally breakable stuff started to fall.
"Son of a bitch-ass, rat bastard, mother fu - "
The box halted suddenly, a foot from the cement, startling me so strongly that my string of curses was cut off. The weight of the heavy box was completely gone, and my obviously weak arm muscles wept with relief. At first I wondered if I'd developed some kind of superpower, but then I saw two very large hands that weren't mine on either side of the box.
"I admire anyone who can successfully use the word 'rat bastard' in a sentence. — Jennifer L. Armentrout