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“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.”

Seems Moral Class Imagine Middle Fashion Style Clothes Ideals Posts Revolutionary Rising Appropriate Middle Class Elegant Victorian Epoch Artificiality Empresses

Author:James Laver

“I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!”

Men Mind Ideas Imagine Fashion Old Man Nobody Cares Botticelli

Author:Norbert Bisky

“We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?”

Reason Whole Might Laughing Imagine Fashion Superiors Sheep Imagine That Flocks

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.”

“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Would Be Comedy Pieces Imagine Plans Fashion Bears Theater Court Devotion Welcome Dramatic Imagine That Piety

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.”

People World Helping Social Millions Imagine Fashion Students Around The World Programming Online Professors Educate Expanding Social Network Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

“I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.”

Done Imagine Worst Fashion Position Feminist Uncomfortable Sixty Worst Things

Author:Miuccia Prada

“I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?”

People Thinking Needs May Done Age Causes Imagine Influence Worst Fashion Example Expected Neglect Imagine That

Book:The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.”

Play Imagine Fashion Imagine That Playwright

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to make adjustments once you see your clothes on a real live person. Now imagine doing that with more sizes, more proportions. You really have to play with every piece. So timing is a big part of it. You have to make the time.”

Persons Real Play Bigs Jobs Certain Pieces Imagine Fashion Clothes Models Size Traditional Proportion Timing Adjustment Fashion Model

Author:Christian Siriano