Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fashion

Fashion can be bought, style one must possess.
- Edna Woolman Chase

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
- George Santayana, 1863 - 1921

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
- Lillian Hellman, 1905 - 1984

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
- Quentin Crisp, 1908 - 1999

The principle of fashion is ... the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.
- Katherine F. Gerould

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Slow

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
- Brenda Ueland, 1891 - 1985

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese proverb

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Eddie Cantor, 1892 - 1964

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
- Edward Teller, 1908 - 2003

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712 - 1778

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
- Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

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