Alison Lurie Quotes

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

With the way I dress, I think my personality shows, so I don't always have to talk. Someone can see what I'm wearing, see what socks I'm wearing, and see what my vibe is, what kind of person I am.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are... "judge" is a very harsh word, but we're taking in and we're evaluating. Who is this person? What do I have in common? Do I respect them? All of that is that unspoken visual impact.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

I have my own style and my own body language.

You look at guys on the court, man. You got this guy with this brand of shoe, and this guy with this brand - they're just wearing the shoe. But it's a whole different feeling when you got a shoe on, and it's yours.

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part of you, a part of yourself as a person.

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

Even when you don't want, your clothes always speak for you. So fashion is definitely an important statement.

I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many differences between them; they are indeed a way to introduce ourselves to other people, and they help us transmitting a message to others.

If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.