Placemaking, and a good English Garden depend entirely on principle and have very little to do with fashion.
Capability BrownThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonHe's bonkers. He's a dear old-fashioned chauvinist of the first order. What he ought to be saying is how nice it is to have women around the office. [on Michael Buerk]
Anna Ford For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George SantayanaEven knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar GracianFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
[The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy]
Douglas AdamsGrief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean De La BruyereBeauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,--the vulgar
Leigh HuntLooking back on some of the outfits that we wore, all I can say is that we all did it at the time and thought they looked great... fashions change over time after all!
Carol DeckerPeople in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret MeadFashion just comes naturally to me.
Jessica SimpsonEnglish culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
Shaun LeaneThere is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary
Dave BarryIf you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Isaac MizrahiO woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung
Jean IngelowOne of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion
Eli WhitneyI love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
Donna KaranEverything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Dr Wayne DyerI'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane ArbusI think I've done fashion passing through it. Not really being there. Passing through, meeting nice people and then coming back.
Ines SastreA fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard ShawFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Imannuel KantBarbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.
Paris HiltonIt came by mail, regular postage, the old-fashioned way since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices
John GrishamWe fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord
Theodore RooseveltEager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Nathaniel HawthorneAnd I was as fed up as anybody, not having nice, fully fashioned glamour stockings.
Barbara CastleI cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian HelvetiusMy fashion pictures are documents just as much as my boat people or my pictures for Band-Aid of Sudan.
David BaileyI know people say Ugg boots are out of fashion, but these boots as so cosy!
Coleen McloughlinFashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco ChanelI don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Bill GatesShe thinks Sex and the City is something married people do but never talk about. [poking fun at her elder families old fashioned views]
Jenna BushI cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian HellmanKate Wilkinson sat in warm bathwater in the weird but wonderful old-fashioned porcelain tub in her New York apartment. The apartment exuded 'old' and 'worn' in ways that practitioners of shabby chic couldn't begin to imagine
James PattersonI base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda RadnerPresident Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.
Jay LenoEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David ThoreauI was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Coco ChanelI do not know if the prime minister will win the next election but you are never going to see Gordon Brown regarded in the same way he was in his first 100 days.
In his first 100 days he seemed to be infallible, he was untouchable, he was gliding across the top of the waves. You are never going to see Gordon Brown reported in that fashion again.
Michael PortilloFashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint LaurentThe play was consumed in wholesome fashion by large masses in places of public resort; the novel was self-administered in private.
Flann O'BrienContempt is frequently regulated by fashion
Johann Georg Von ZimmermannMen act like women and it's difficult to have a relationship because I like men in that old fashioned way.
Sharon StoneThe difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder - at night and on weekends.
Claudia SchifferI love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.
Christy TurlingtonIt’s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.
Mia KirshnerI almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God - never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer AnistonFashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
George Bernard ShawDisco is a major influence in the world of fashion.
Neil Bogart
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