“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.” GovernmentLostDressesInnocenceBadges Author:Thomas Paine
“I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.” I CanCharacterLostBearsClothesDressesShopping Author:Richard Armitage
“There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!” MeanCoursesLostExpressionOriginalsDressesItalianBiblicalTranslationsSimilarityTraitorSpellingTranslatorsPronunciationItalian ProverbPithy Author:Daniel Wallace
“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.” GovernmentLostKingsBuiltDressesRuinsInnocenceParadisePalacesBadges Author:Thomas Paine
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.” LongImportantGirlLostRealizingOne ThingNewsDressesTrainDisguiseOld ThingsMoaningSame Old ThingLost Girl Book:Il grande Source: Il grande
“Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.” ThinkingWorldStillsBookWarLostForgetToo MuchViolenceFashionDressesMeetingsCaughtDreamerScholarWardrobeForgetful Book:The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
“Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.” SaidWinningLostBitsBlackBehindsMiddleDressesLeavingEmbarrassedPalmsScarletSequins Book:All These Things I've Done Source: All These Things I've Done
“Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.” ThinkingYearsTwoIdeasSometimesWholeLostFeltBlackHalfSupportEmotionalMonthsNeededMembersDoctorsTragedyDressesExpectedMourningTwo YearsPillsBreakdownFamily MembersSupport YouWhole YearRight Ideas Author:Mercedes Lackey
“Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.” FeelsHappensFilmLostCuttingFitWeightDressesFavourite Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.” ChildrenWholeSeemsLostGivenSidesFeetQuietSixDressesSensitivePoeticDelicateToesWoeImaginativeOccasionalSolemnPicnicsSecretiveTantrumsCavernsUnderprivileged Author:Charles Addams