#ash

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#forty #forty years #had #lobby #needs

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#cane #heroes #i #king #lid

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#dear #face #look #match #quite

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#attempt #fashion #forms #intercourse #living

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#ask #black #born #church #i

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash! ↗

— Peter Banks

#another #approach #attempt #bits #different

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#fashion #influence #instance #lot #minimal

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#after #ago #art #art form #collections

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#avenue #away #came #done #drew