Dressed Quotes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Looks, Missed

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Genius

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

Success, Failure, Cannot

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

Success, Graduation, Students

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
Demetri Martin

Hope, Morning, Nice

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Men, Basketball, Black

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Character, Person

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

Good, May, Temper

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.
Hillary Clinton

Down, Eyes, Touch

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary

History, Brain, Generation

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen

Happen, Fine, Eternal

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Life, Respect, Judge

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine

Far, Lion, Skin

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland

Nothing, Elegance, Refusal

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Home, Play

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
Doug Coupland

Making, While, Eye

I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Alone, Help

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo

Men, Nothing, Cannot

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Vivienne Westwood

Around, Wanted, Off

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
John B. Keane

Woman, Play, Drink

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
Wavy Gravy

Done, Different, Soul

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Alexander McQueen

Woman, Book, Night

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.
Louis C. K.

Food, Future, School

When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.
Julia Roberts

Time, Yourself, Different

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
Candace Cameron Bure

Love, Mom, True

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
Helena Bonham Carter

Good, Mother, Reading

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
Snoop Dogg

Love, Good, Nice

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
Lauryn Hill

Sometimes, Kids, Show

I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!
Emma Watson

Rain, Nothing, Mean

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.
Christina Ricci

Age, Nothing, She

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