A Quote by Dionne Brand

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Dionne Brand

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Communication Display Fashions Language Never Place Reinvention

Quote Author

Dionne Brand
Canadian - Novelist
Born: January 7, 1953

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

Jane Jacobs

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

Meryl Streep

Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them.

Sam Ewing

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Erwin Chargaff

The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back.

Edward Enninful

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

Tina Knowles

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Edward Abbey

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Norman Cousins

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Hesiod

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Austin O'Malley

My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

Indra Nooyi

The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?

Robert Henri

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.