“The tight thoughts and the loose face will go over the whole world.”

— Scipione Alberti

Quoted by Henry Wotton in a letter to John Milton, 13 April 1638, as published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton http://books.google.com/books?id=OrY4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA381 (1907), Vol. 2, p. 381
Translation: ""Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose..."" attributed to Wotton in Vol. 1, p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=vbU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22

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Edith Head (1897–1981) American film and television costumer

Source: The Dress Doctor

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“Loose language suggests loose thought.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Victim impact statements represent the sentimentalisation - the Diana-ification - of the criminal justice system, argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001298.php (December 11, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations

“Everybody's got a secret Sonny,
Something that they just can't face.
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it;
They carry it with them every step that they take.
Till some day they just cut it loose.
Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down
Where no one asks any questions,
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

“Little John: Let's face it — you've got to be a man to wear tights!”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

“[ Your thoughts close and your countenance loose. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown.”

Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919)

“Any emotion affects our thoughts, our beliefs and our actions. Strong positive emotions exert great power over the human body and the whole world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Qualsiasi emozione influisce sui nostri pensieri, le nostre credenze e le nostre azioni. Le forti emozioni positive esercitano un grande potere sul corpo umano e sul mondo intero.
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“And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce,
Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light.
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"Blinded by the Light"
Song lyrics, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)

“The tight thoughts and the loose face will go over the whole world.”

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