#garment

The body is a sacred garment. ↗

— Martha Graham

#body #garment #sacred

That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said... ↗

— Michael Chabon

#dead-dogs #garment-bags #suitcases #trunk-space #tubas

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#actually #garments #good #look #tell

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#garment #god #grasp #hears #hem

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#child #chilly #feeling #garment #mother