“You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.” WorldShowsOpportunityWaitingLeadershipReadyRedBallsDressesInvitesBanquetsBoogie Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love
“When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.” WantPlayGamesFunGrowing UpNiceGrowingReadyStressDressesConstantPastimeDressing Up Author:Lauren Conrad
“And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had reached it from heaven. And the verbena bed is compassed with fitful fragrance. Even the pansies, with their dewy eyes, are ready to rival the violets now.... Nor must the purple buds of the calycanthus be forgotten. 'Sweet-scented shrub' indeed; for let me hide but a single one of these in some fold of my dress, and the spices of Araby will float around me till the evening.” EyeSpiritHeavenReadySweetBedMessagesLet MeDressesRoseBoundsForgottenEveningBordersIntensityVioletPurpleFloatsFragranceRivalsFoldsSpicesBudPansiesShrubsSpirit Bound Author:Sarah Smiley
“A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.” WholePayPrinciplesFashionReadyTasteQuietAll ThingsDressesSimplicityGentlemanExquisiteAvoidanceExtravagantTailorsNeatness Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.” LongTodayTurnsGirlStuffWonderFourReadyDressesSizeSexyConfusionVulgarThat Girl Author:Carolina Herrera
“My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that - he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.” MayReadyCriticismDressesPreparedBombsSubversiveCrispsQuentin Author:Sebastian Horsley
“I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.” WantedActorsNiceReadySmartDressesSexyBeing NiceBeing Smart Author:Vincent Cassel
“We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.” YearsFirstsRealLife IsNextRaceReadyEternityDressesTrackWarmThis LifePreparationLapRehearsal Author:Rick Warren
“I get no sense from his note at all,” said Will, bounding to his feet, “except that he can quote Tennyson’s lesser poetry. Sophie, how quickly can you have Tessa ready?” “Half an hour,” said Sophie, not looking up from the dress. “Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.” SaidHoursHalfFeetReadyDressesNotesPreparedBe PreparedSophieTennyson Author:Cassandra Clare
“I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers, we have corpses on poles decorating the front of the house.” “Flowers are on the way, as is my best man, three seamstresses are ready to make any dress you desire, and I’ll have the corpses taken down,” he replied without missing a beat.” MenWayWantDesireThreeHouseTakenSpecialMissingFrontsReadyFlowerBeatsDressesCorpsesDecoratingOur Wedding Author:Jeaniene Frost
“Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.” IfsWellsPayAttentionFrontsReadyClothesDressesPhotographerExtremesCowsDirtGarbageCountrysideBathtubs Author:Valentino Garavani