Worn Quotes by Donna Air, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, John Greenleaf Whittier, Christian Lacroix and many others.
I’ve spent a lot on clothes. I’m not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I’ve also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I’d only worn once or twice, but I’m one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!
Fashion needs to be worn.
When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
How do you know someone is a grandparent? They’ve got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.
My favorite pair of shoes I’ve worn for a role would have to be the brown Vera Wang combat boots that Jo wears in her everyday life away from the hospital on ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ I love them because they are also something I would wear in my everyday life.
There’s nothing I’d never wear, really. I’ve worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I’m having a small breakdown!
There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.
There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.
I just feel like there hasn’t been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn’t worn off yet.
I am worn to a raveling.
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques – the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.
All I’m saying is that I understand if the novelty’s worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.
And that’s an even greater love: to love somebody when he’s a little…worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear
I think certain movies are right for 3D. I think certain movies are not right for 3D. And I think the specialness of 3D will be worn off if every movie becomes 3D.
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
I hadn’t expected to be kidnapped today or I’d have worn something more conservative.
My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
I’ve never worn fur, either. I’m a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
I’ve never worn a hoodie before!
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re 34.
There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions – to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!
My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.
I’m known for wearing tweed jackets, khaki pants and suede shoes. I’ve only worn a suit in parliament under duress, when I was on the front bench.
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned – not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
I have never worn a sweater vest a day in my life. Nor will I ever wear a sweater vest.
My rookie season, I wore 8 because I had wanted 15, but it’s retired in Philadelphia. I had worn 15 in college.
If you have items in your closet that you haven’t worn in a year, then you’re never going to wear them.
I was looking around this room, this sea of industry folk. If I had have worn black and white, somebody would have asked me to get them a cocktail; the only other people of colour there were servers.
I do enjoy fashion – a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.
I’ve always worn earplugs, but I’m sure my hearing’s not great.
‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out.
If feminism was a dress, it would be that essential little black number, reached for in times of need; different for everyone but a steady constant in a woman’s life. Outspoken or understated, demure or provocative, worn to reflect the mood, the personality, the time.
A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.
From shoes that are a size too small to a dress that doesn’t fit quite right, there are incredible pieces in most wardrobes that have never been worn.
I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I’m a minority
There’s nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it’s great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.
All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
When you do a song new live on stage, it’s kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It’s still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov’d, us’d — well enough, I think, we’ve far’d, my heart and I.
Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just sort of my mom to me. I never really recognized her as a famous actress. I’m always thrilled when she’s cleaning out her closet. Last time, I got a pair of boots that she bought in Paris 20 years ago. I have completely worn them out.
I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn’t be worn for one season – you should be able to wear it year after year.
I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I’ve not been worn down by cynicism.
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.
I’ve always dressed the same. I’ve never made a fashion mistake. I’ve always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintage and classic Brooks Brothers.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.
I like my denim to fit a bit relaxed and feel a bit worn in.
Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill.
The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader’s face
Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.
The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader’s face
Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.
There’s so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They’re a bit worn out by the association.
I saw ‘Fargo,’ not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings – I’m sure my tape has been worn out.
I don’t know… I’ve been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I’ve seen pictures and thought, “Oh my god, I wish I would’ve never worn that.” Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time – my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.
I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I’ve always worn that on my sleeve.
Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.
I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: ‘Don’t do that.’ You never see that these days. ‘Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.’ Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.
I’d like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn’t . . .
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years.
For the most part, most people most often choose comfort – the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.
What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If Im in a good mood, its got to be cashmere and jeans – just something comfy, soft and warm. When Im down, I might find something that I havent worn for a while that was bought for me – or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
I have 10 pairs of these jeans in different colors, and I’ve worn the same Isabel Marant boots for seven years. I’ve looked the same forever and ever.
I don’t let myself get worn out. I always listen to my body and take care of it if I’m run-down.
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I’ve never been in love with anyone but myself.
My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession – I’ve worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
And the truth is I’ve always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation’s uniform.
Jeans of any sort should not be worn in nice restaurants. They pollute the landscape. They should also not be worn in the workplace if no other workers wear them. However, if your office is casual, go for it.
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
I think you’d have to be a pretty brave man to say “never go out of style,” but men’s suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could’ve worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.
If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.
I’ve never worn flats in my life. I haven’t owned any since I was a kid. I suppose the only flats I have are the shoes I wear to the gym, but I put them on just before I start to work out… I like heels.
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.
I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, ‘vaut le voyage.’
Fashion is a vampiric thing, it’s the hoover on your brain. That’s why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, ‘Oh, can I kiss you?’ I say, ‘No, thank you very much. That’s why I’ve worn the hat. Goodbye.’ I don’t want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.
I’ve always worn my wedding band when I’m working out. A few years ago I realized how dangerous wearing a metal band could be and switched to silicone.
In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!
I’m a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I’ve always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
I’ve worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I’ve worn Prada – absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
All you need to do is look down at my boots. My pro wrestling boots that I’ve worn for the past year have the Triforce symbol from ‘Legend of Zelda’ on them.
The best movie theater in the world is in a dingy basement on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The worn seats are painful. There are probably bigger screens in half the apartments in the complex above the theater. And forget Fandango; the theater barely has a website. You want to buy a ticket? Get in line.
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you’re open and you’re willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock – shock is a worn-out word – but astonish.
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
I don’t think I’ve ever worn anything other than black jeans and shirts. Quite simple, really, and quite casual.
Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.
When I’ve trained as hard as I possibly can through training camp and I come to the end, where my body is worn out and I’m tired, I know I’m ready to peak.
Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another’s heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder’d, wondering how it is.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.
I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they’ve been worn by other people.
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.
All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.
I’ve worn down America.
What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
I haven’t worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.
So now you can let go, my darling…Let go…Let go of this poor old body. You don’t need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes…Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.
Emotionally, I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It’s still running.
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
Your nerve coatings are only so thick. When they get worn really thin and frayed, that’s when people say things, do things, misbehave.
Never fly anything that doesn’t have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
Only men who have worn a ski suit understand how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she’s wearing a jumpsuit.
Once, when I’d needed to meet Daniel to deliver a warning from Jeremy, I’d worn two-inch heels and had quite enjoyed the sensation of talking down to Daniel, until he told me how sexy I looked. Since then he’d never seen me in anything but my oldest, grubbiest sneakers.
… wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
I was more worn out with the “Odyssey” than it was with the “Iliad.” I mean, just comparing those two – you can see how it’s changing, how the language of the “Iliad” is somehow monstrously new – and that language of the “Odyssey” is more comfortable, even for us.
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
I’ve been spoiled rotten with the costumes I’ve worn.
The Hero cares not for a wild winter’s storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.
When I’m photographing, I look for the personal style with which something is worn – sometimes even how an umbrella is carried or how a coat is held closed.
A gray flannel suit by Thom Browne or Tom Ford can be worn a billion ways. I’ll wear a gray flannel jacket with a white shirt, gray flannel tie, beat-up fatigues, and a dress shoe or Carpe Diem boots.
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow – of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body – has been pleasant to dwell upon.
A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.
For forty years, I’ve worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don’t know how precious it is until it’s worn out and gone away.
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.
I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
I’ve never worn Prada, I’m more TK Maxx than Harrods, I’ve always found clothes from the catwalk don’t usually flatter my shape.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.
I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.
I would love to have a gadget that can be worn in high heel shoes, so that it doesn’t hurt!
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
The thing about Uggs is that they’re so comfortable. Once you’ve worn them, you don’t want to go back.
The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]
[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]
What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.
Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.
In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don’t blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.
I’m good at clearing things out. If I haven’t worn something for a while, I’ll give it away to charity.
When I’m too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.
I have a massive hat collection, which includes many, many fedoras I haven’t worn because of the stigma. I buy them thinking, ‘I’m going to make people accept fedoras!’ But with the way I dress, if I wore a fedora, I’d be in the camp that gives them a bad name.
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin’d fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.
I’ll be having lunch with my mum and she’ll complain about the paparazzi outside. I tell her that she could have worn a beanie, but of course she never does. She loves it – it’s how she chooses to connect with people. That’s fine, I can respect that. But I’m the opposite. I always have been.
Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
These are things I love, things I’ve worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they’re kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.
I’ve always loved glasses. Always have. I’ve worn glasses since I was in the fifth grade.
I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there’s a reality and relevance there, because that’s what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
I don’t want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven’t played than I care if my neck looks like someone’s bedroom curtains.
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.
I was tired of my lady, we’d been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.
I’ve been involved with Berlei for almost my whole career. I actually discovered them well over 10 years ago, probably 2002 at least. My mom introduced me. She said, “Listen, you should try these bras.” And I was like, “Really?” So I tried it and since then I’ve never worn another bra.
I know you feel worn and tired. I know you’re tired of failing. Rest, but don’t stop. You can do this. You got this.
Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
Marvel has a very specific MCU in-house style with the costumes, and so I thought, ‘Oh, it could be so fun to put this original Loki in an outfit that maybe Loki would have worn in a movie like 40 years ago.’
People, when they say ‘streetwear,’ they miss the central component, which is that it’s real people; it’s clothes that are worn on the street.
A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool. I’ll wear them to bed. It’s cold; it’s winter.’ But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, ‘I’m giving you my favorite pair.’
I have this old worn-out, skintight T-shirt that I love. That’s sexy.
The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they’ve worn out. It’s embarrassing, but it doesn’t affect me too much. I shop when I have to.
I’ve had to replace parts in the basses when they’ve gotten old or worn out, so everything isn’t absolutely original.
I’ve worn over 6,700 gowns. They’re all borrowed gowns, designer samples.
I’ve always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter’s hat on.
I’m just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
You can’t recall someone whose name has worn away.
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we’re broken open. If we’re unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
…his gaze met hers. It was crazy. Dressed down in worn blue jeans and a black shirt, he was the most beautiful man she’d ever seen. And the moment was sort of perfect. Even with the deer head staring over his shoulder like a total creeper.
Of course I remember everything I’ve ever worn.
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels – worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it’s been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
Randalf the Wise indeed!I’ve worn wiser pairs of underpants!
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.
The world’s decay where the wind’s hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.
Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.
I’ve worn black today, because I’ve heard so often that it’s supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important
Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.
My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There’s a song called, Road Worn, which is about spending so much time on the road and is a lot more jazzy sounding than most of my other music.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.
Don’t answer to sick, or broke, or worn out any longer.
I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys’ Wrangler jeans and my husband’s worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home.
I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don’t pay no union dues.
I sometimes get worn out by the training and going into the gym, but never by the fights.
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I’ve said or written or made or worn in the past.
There are a couple of things that I’m sure people don’t think are important, but I do. I don’t like hair changes unless there’s a reason for it. Clothing – I don’t like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour – you can wear it again a few weeks later.
It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio’s problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head – I wear them around my neck and on my bag.
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
I’ve worn it to church before. Camouflage and the other clothes.
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That’s the worst part.
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can’t bake any more bread.
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it’s best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.
I’ve worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.
I really like a lot of Tom Ford. His leather sneakers are my most worn shoes.
I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn’t worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, ‘Man, that’s the life!’
I have always worn the No.10 shirt when I played at lower levels and, obviously, my reference point was always Pele and then Ronaldinho.
Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation’s uniform and to honor their service.
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you’ve been in that goldfish bowl – nobody can judge unless they’ve worn those shoes.
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.
I haven’t worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That’s all. And for me, it’s fine that my house’s interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
The only thing I’ve got is that the ring fingers on both my hands have a little arthritis in each. It’s a worn out joint because of too much exertion and stress. But it doesn’t affect my playing, which is good.
There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
I’m not wearing leather shoes, and I have not worn furs since a long time ago. I have to be very conscious when I’m making decisions and saying I’m vegan because I have to be about it all the way.
I now let go of worn out things, worn out conditions, and worn out relationships. Divine order is now established and maintained in me and in my world.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
You feel worn down at the end of every year, regardless of whether you have power numbers or not.
I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn’t really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
Standing as a witness in all things means all things – big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables – sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I’ve never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I’ve been holding onto for years.
The #18 jersey will never be worn again
Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, ‘Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,’ it’ll be 15, it’ll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.
I’d worn Joe’s Jeans since I was young, so it was cool to be able to reinvent the brand and be able to be part of it.
If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.
I have never worn a sleeveless blouse ever in films or in my personal life, so there was no way that I would wear a bikini.
Sorry, honey, but I haven’t worn a nightgown in years.
I’ve worn jeans until they’re ripped all the way around the crotch and I can’t wear them any longer. You get so attached to jeans, they’re like old friends.
Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.
I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair – it’s just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive hole underneath the arm, as I think I may have worn it to death!
When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!
‘Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.
My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
I have worn things that are too tight, and I’ve learned over the years that just because the size on the tag says something smaller doesn’t mean it looks good on you.
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life’s end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I’ve never worn anything that fitted that closely – it was akin to ‘Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn’t have to be this wide.’ But I do intend to get one made some day.
The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It’s the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It’s simplistic but has an edge to it.
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
As great as it is, ‘Vogue’ won’t change a designer’s business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie’s where it’s just worn out from my pinky going back and forth over the wood over all these years. I got Willie Nelson to sign that spot on my guitar. I’m a huge fan of him.
Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others’ T-shirts, it’s unlikely that they’d go to war over a border.
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
I can’t bring out something I’ve already worn. I want to make sure I don’t look down. I want people to say, ‘Man, he looks good’.
Whenever someone comes up to me and says, ‘I’m having trouble shopping.’ I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together – a shirt, a sweater, a jacket – and it’s too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It’s not the clothes but it’s how you wear them sometimes.
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
All clothes are worn on the street, but ‘streetwear’ had once described T-shirt brands and skate-inspired brands, and now it’s just a lazy innuendo used to describe clothing made by designers that the establishment deems ‘less than.’
My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
Back in the NBA’s pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
There was a Saint Laurent dress that I actually had to hide from my manager. I DJ’d for part of the money, did a shoot and got a discount, and it was still one of my most extravagant purchases. I’ve worn it loads, even to do chores around the house, so surely that makes it ok?
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
We shared a doctor in Harley Street, and it turned out Axl Rose was a huge fan of mine, which was cool because Im a bit of a rocker – I should have worn spandex and grown my hair long but instead I joined a pop band.
I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.
It is reasonable to think that the more readers put into the Bible app in the form of small investments, the more it becomes a repository of their history of worship. Like a worn dog-eared book, full of scribbled insights and wisdom, the app becomes a treasured asset not easily discarded.
Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.
I had a replica of a red outfit that Karisma Kapoor wore in some movie. I have worn that outfit on many occasions.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
When I started on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
Saying yes all the time won’t make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
I think Instagram made me more aware that there’s actually people that care about what we do, and that we have fans. So that kind of showed me that maybe the people that follow me every day, and are commenting on my pictures, would want to wear the dress I’ve worn.
I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I’ve been worn out.
Even though I was still able to make some All-Star teams, mentally I was worn out. And once I wore out mentally, physically I started to wear down.
To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother’s collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
I’ve not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn’t seem to care. I’m not sure whether they don’t remember or whether they’ve just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
In the past, the biggest mistake I’ve made has been trying to treat election night like the first and last time anyone will ever see me on TV. I’ve worn dresses that were more prom time than primetime.
White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you’re selling ice cream.
Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I’m 120 and worn out, that’s what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I’m travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress.
I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it’s the same person’s point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it’s still going to wear you out.
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it’s degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins…. So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I’ve done so many offensive comedies, I’m now worn down to a little nub of… nub of an activist.
I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing – or who have worn – our country’s uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you’ve got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board
It’s no one’s fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
People have always worn Cleveland shirts and supported Cleveland no matter how bad the teams were or how close we were. It didn’t matter. That’s really all about the city. We’re just hardworking people that love the city and don’t care how the teams do.
My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you’re going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature’s oldest force is as good as new.
The problem was that I’d never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn’t allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
The lines on your face are your medals. You’ve earned them, so why shouldn’t they be worn with honour?
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
I’ve worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people – it is pretty hard to embarrass me.
The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
My husband has a wife who is happy to wander round in old leggings held up with worn elastic. I’m happy with who I am and I’m more concerned with other issues and trying any way I can to make a better world for our children.
I’m trying to not follow fashion. I don’t even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I’ve designed a couple suits for myself that I’ve worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.
I think “waste of your brain” is something that my mother would say to me occasionally – I think it’s usually when I’m telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I’ve ever worn.
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.
Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.
I’ve worn a chainmail suit to swim with sharks, glided over Cirencester with a James Bond-style paramotor strapped to my back, eaten hippo steaks and had a bat dive down my bra. And all the while, I had to face the camera and smile.
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you’re there, with a splinter of life.
I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying “swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,” or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.
Makeup isn’t something I’ve worn a lot of in my life.
I am a woman now! ItвЂs true. No, honestly, IвЂve never worn a bra in my life, ever!
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
We don’t have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.
I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.
I’m not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they’re held together by Scotch tape.
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.
I also think he is given to disguises…Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.
One dress I love – for me, it’s a little edgy – it’s sleeveless. It’s black and it’s leather. I’ve worn it on TV.
A bear remains a bear – even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.
I’ve always just worn bows. They just got bigger and better and sparklier – and then I became ‘JoJo with the bow bow,’ and it became a thing.
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.
You can’t staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don’t buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I’ve always worn, from Target.
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.
I’d worn the same Carhartts and hoodies for years, and only bought clothes when the ones I had tore too many holes.
Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.
Sometimes, when we dress celebrities, there are always loads of Twitters and things like that. When I wake up, I think, ‘Oh right, she wore it.’ You kind of always know where it’s going to be worn.
Worn out places, worn out faces.
A lot of stuff happens daily when you’re running a company like Subway. If you get too happy about some things or too unhappy about others, you get worn out. It’s best if you can pace yourself a little bit more.
Let others, worn with living / And living’s aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart’s distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.
I’ve always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It’s so inherently chic.
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches – like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat – and I give them a more incandescent future.
We all have scars […] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
I usually like loud T-shirts and band shirts, so I just try to keep it as simple as possible with jeans and white kicks that are worn in and, like, a simple jacket.
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
Every few weeks, I’d really be worn down. The doctor said just take time off, but it became apparent that the exercise you need to be a top-level athlete brought the symptoms on.
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.
I’ve never worn costume jewelry in my life. It’s really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?
I feel the sexiest in my husband’s t-shirts, especially after he’s worn it all day.
I love Louboutins and Jimmy Choos, but I’ve got pairs I’ve never worn, because I’m still waiting to find the outfit that will go with them.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.
I’ve never worn the same pair of shoes twice, ever. That’s a fact.
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
O, Men’s vows are women’s traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where’t grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
Of course you can still paint landscape – it’s not been worn out.
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor’s biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek. I must have worn it out, I played with it so much.
I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.
With anything you do in life, there are days where you’re worn out and you don’t want to do it for a second.
I am all for trying out various kinds of hair styles. I have even worn a wig earlier in a film where I essayed the part of a woman.
Sometimes I feel… that my cross is heavy beyond endurance… My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn… No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he’d been all I’d had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.
I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven’t tended to work so well.
It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads, – such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I’ve never worn before. I’ve worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I’m at practice or at work.
Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.
This club needs an impetus of energy – but I just feel tired to be honest. I’m worn out.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
I hadn’t bargained for this. I didn’t think it would be like this – shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. … I didn’t think it would be like this
Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.
I’m tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
My brain’s gone, my soul’s worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body’s still bein operated on.
Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.
I believe crop tops can be worn with literally anything, but I think it’d be really cool to pair them with track pants.
I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven’t worn ten times in the past, I’m like, “Who am I right now? I don’t recognize myself!”
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan
Repeating us by rote:
For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan
Repeating us by rote:
For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell
emerges strange and lovely.
emerges strange and lovely.
Where is the world whose people don’t prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.
A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.
To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.
‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ hasn’t worn well, but George Harrison’s ‘Within You Without You’ is awesome.
You can’t really hit on grass. There are lots of bad bounces, so when the guy plays deep into the spot where the grass has been worn down and he doesn’t leave you the time to play, you don’t have time to play fast yourself.
Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.
I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
The Sacred isn’t housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with ‘the life force’ flowing through all living things.
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
I’m really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they’re worn by some people to hide themselves. But they’re also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there’s a dichotomy there.
I’ve never worn incredible clothes – I’m not used to playing someone so put together and fashionable.
If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.
I really wish you hadn’t worn that sweater,’he muttered into her ear. ‘It’s good practice for you,’ she replied,her lips moving against his skin. ‘Tomorrow,fishnets.’ Against her side,warm and familiar,she felt him laugh.
Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.
I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
I’ve worn a dress at my wedding. I’ve worn 6-inch Louboutins. I’ve got no fear and no shame.
Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me – a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.
‘The New York Times’ is inherent in what we are, but not worn as ‘what we are’; it’s important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.
The pleasure in lovers’ gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.
The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.
I don’t think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don’t eat.
I like hair that’s been ‘worn in’ because it’s much easier to deal with…. I actually don’t like it when [models] come in with this beautiful, thick, glossy hair. I think, Oh, no! I can’t do a thing with this!
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed
There’s no point having something worn on your body – that’s a big ask – unless you can give people something they really couldn’t get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I’ve worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.
The Ballon d’Or presentation will be the first time I’ve ever worn black tie!
I think it’s real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don’t have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.
It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.
Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves.
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind…
It was just great to wear the Brazil shirt in the senior team for the first time. I’d already worn it before playing for various age groups in the youth teams but it’s very different playing for the Brazilian first team.
‘Ready’ is dedicated to young people who are not yet jaded and worn down by the realities of this world.
I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I’ve worn a lace dress before!
Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he’s alive forever, this instant, and may be.
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks.
You’re making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You’re saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to – it’s part of its history, part of its aura.
I feel like I’m stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it’s always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
Stephen Jones’ hats are what we used to call ‘creations’; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They’re worn in a parallel universe.
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one’s notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
I haven’t worn make-up since my wedding, and my husband loves me a lot.
Let’s embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don’t change the world, and I’d rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn’t worn out by the partying.
