Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

God‘s word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we’ll never make it through.

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

You’re being cast for your acting ability. It’s not based on the way your body functions. If you‘re playing a lead in a movie, it’s for that character and they’ll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

A fop of fashion is the mercer’s friend, the tailor’s fool, and his own foe.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there’s a little thing outside called the sun…yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn’t be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn’t work anyway.

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there’s just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

Oh, Jeeves,’ I said; ‘about that check suit.’ Yes, sir?’ Is it really a frost?’ A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.’ But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.’ Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.’ He’s supposed to be one of the best men in London.’ I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.

I think there’s a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they’re no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, ‘The kids love this!’

‘Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat‘s tongue, you bull‘s pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself.

It’s essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

I don’t have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

God’s the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who’s interested in a little quelque chose d’autre.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor’s I’ve shook off old mortality.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I’d tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion‘s prayer is forgotten.

Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child–what she or he can handle–and to individual differences among children.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can’t tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don’t have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes.

Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

I help people with not just the ‘what’ but the ‘how’ and tailor for individual needs

I’d really want to – just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I’d want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

I’d say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you’re doing to what the situation dictates.

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

Costume designers don’t care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors’ lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems–when they pay for coats.

I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

I’ll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They’re as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you’ve ceased to wear it.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I don’t know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can’t even imagine them.

Just because a suit fits, doesn’t mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

God’s the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

We live in a world that’s very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history – many have always done.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,– True but for lying,–honest but for stealing,– Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That’s what an editor does – looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton‘s.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks – please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.