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evening dress
«The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.»
Author: Alfred Jarry
| Keywords:
dress rehearsal, evening dress, expurgated, idiots, rehearsals, select
«Remember you're a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.»
«I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
dress circle, evening dress, stage set
«At the beginning they wanted me to sing as sweet as a flower, even Ernesto Alonso put me a strapless dress and high heels and as soon as I went down the stairs I fell. I didn't even make it to the stage.»
Author: Chavela Vargas
| Keywords:
Alonso, down the stairs, dress down, evening dress, heels, stairs
«They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
| Keywords:
evening dress
«The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.»
Author: Sylvia Pankhurst
| Keywords:
betoken, cigarettes, emancipate, emancipated, emancipation, evening dress, nails, painted, pioneers, shorts, skirts, The Return of, toiled, trailing, womanhood
«And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.»
«This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body: what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, body weight, evening dress, first appearance, incomparably, invariably, originally
«For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
dress, evening, evening dress, evening star, fades, fading away, filled, invisible, less than, twilight, youth
