#garment

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#contributes #economic #garment #hand #other

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#big difference #buying #cheap #coat #difference

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

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. ↗

— Felix Adler

#bake #because #bread #build #done

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

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earliest #eat #garment #greet #invisible

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clings #garment #government #must #people