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Letter "S" » skirt
«It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs...»
«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.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
copy, evening clothes, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, shortening, shortens, skirt, skirted, trends
«A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say ''.Come, be my wife!'' With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.»
Author: Olive Schreiner
(Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, and then some, defiles, degradation, earn, good looks, one-way street, One Ring, skirt, skirted, sold, the union, traffic, weeping, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.»
«A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Sermons
| Keywords:
arouse, arousing, cover, essentials, sermon, skirt, skirted
«At the Billboard Awards my skirt was so tight they had to lift me on stage.»
Author: Beyonce Knowles
(Actress, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
billboard, billboards, On Stage, skirt, the Billboard
«Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
photo, skirt, skirted, sport, tennis, The photo
«And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.»
«And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.»
«Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
elected, hopelessness, horror, Joy of, pilgrimage, skirt, skirted, The Pilgrimage, vanquished, vanquishes
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