Quotes with dressed

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  • Thomas Alva Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
    An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason , p. 55.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept
    On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.
    Pan Tadeusz
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  • Lord Chesterfield Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carolina Herrera Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bill Hader The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Babe Paley The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • George Orwell The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cunningham The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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  • Carolina Herrera The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Timothy Leary We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Carlisle Floyd We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Brenda Laurel When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • John Malkovich Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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