Quotes about lipstick

A collection of quotes on the topic of lipstick, herring, put, likeness.

Quotes about lipstick

Barack Obama photo

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Frank Zappa photo

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Lady Gaga photo
Junot Díaz photo
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Jerry Seinfeld photo

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

"Confessions of an unromantic man," Redbook magazine, Vol. 176, Iss. 4, (Feb 1991): 62.

Christopher Moore photo
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Sylvia Plath photo

“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Philippe Kahn photo
John Hagee photo

“Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist.”

John Hagee (1940) American pastor, theologian and saxophonist

What Every Man Wants in a Woman: 10 Essentials for Growing Deeper in Love
Charisma House
Lake Mary, Fla.
December 2004
978-1591855576
124084413
http://books.google.com/books?id=blrTAAAACAAJ

James D. Watson photo

“I suspect that in the beginning Maurice hoped that Rosy would calm down. Yet mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. By choice she did not emphasize her feminine qualities. Though her features were strong, she was not unattractive and might have been quite stunning had she taken even a mild interest in clothes. This she did not. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men. But this was not the case. Her dedicated austere life could not be thus explained — she was the daughter of a solidly comfortable, erudite banking family.
Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because, given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA. Not that at times he'd didn't see some reason for her complaints — King's had two combination rooms, one for men, the other for women, certainly a thing of the past. But he was not responsible, and it was no pleasure to bear the cross for the added barb that the women's combination room remained dingily pokey whereas money had been spent to make life agreeable for him and his friends when they had their morning coffee.
Unfortunately, Maurice could not see any decent way to give Rosy the boot. To start with, she had been given to think that she had a position for several years. Also there was no denying that she had a good brain. If she could keep her emotions under control, there was a good chance she could really help him. But merely wishing for relations to improve was taking something of a gamble, for Cal Tech's fabulous chemist Linus Pauling was not subject to the confines of British fair play. Sooner or later Linus, who had just turned fifty, was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes. There was no doubt he was interested. … The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab.”

Description of Rosalind Franklin, whose data and research were actually key factors in determining the structure of DNA, but who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer, before the importance of her work could be widely recognized and acknowledged. In response to these remarks her mother stated "I would rather she were forgotten than remembered in this way." As quoted in "Rosalind Franklin" at Strange Science : The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology by Michon Scott http://www.strangescience.net/rfranklin.htm
The Double Helix (1968)

Audrey Hepburn photo

“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that loving is the best calorie-burner. I believe in kissing. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls… and I believe in miracles.”

Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) British actress

Unidentified ‘member’ of MySpace.com circa 2007–08, quoted in Richard Kennedy The Disgrace of MySpace (self-published [Lulu.com] 23 August 2008, ISBN 9781435760042, page 123. This passage and slight variants of it have been widely attributed to Audrey Hepburn long after her death (for example, in Glamour March 2012, page 78); but no evidence of its existence has been found during Hepburn’s lifetime, attributed to Hepburn or anyone else. It has not been found in print before 2008.
Misattributed

Sarah Palin photo

“I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”

Sarah Palin (1964) American politician

2008, 2008 Republican National Convention

June Vincent photo

“Someday I’ll do an historical survey and in-depth analysis of lipstick color names and it will be an accurate reflection of our evolving culture.”

Andrea Lewis (writer) Microsoft employee

“ Fire and Ice http://www.cadillaccicatrix.org/andrea_lewis.htm,” Cadillac Cicatrix (2009)
2000-09

Chuck Berry photo
Courtney Love photo

“I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

On being a woman in rock, The Independent https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/it-still-feels-like-love-courtneys-back-26344406.html (13 January 2008)
2006–2013

Maddox photo

“There are very few people who look good in red lipstick, and those people usually juggle for a living.”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=fashion
The Best Page in the Universe

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John McCain photo

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

Criticizing Hillary Clinton's health-care plan as being "eerily reminiscent" of the plan she advocated as First Lady, 11 October 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign10-2008sep10,0,311675.story
2000s, 2007

“They put lipstick on the pig to try to sell it to somebody that didn't know what they were buying.”

Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson

CNBC House of Cards interview, 2009.

Keith Olbermann photo

“Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator

October 2009. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Who-You-Calling-Mashed-Up-Bag-of-Meat-204

Marisa Miller photo

“I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)…Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis.”

Marisa Miller (1978) American model

[Fox News, Supermodel Marisa Miller Getting 'Angel' Wings, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422504,00.html, News Corporation, 2008-09-20]

Zoya Akhtar photo

“Who told me to, stay true to the story. Told me not to lose my femininity, because I am directing. So if I want to go to work in a skirt and lipstick, I should. I don't have to be male, to be the boss. And to never hook up with the actors. Best piece of Advise.”

Zoya Akhtar (1974) Indian film director

as an answer to the question: Whats the most useful advise you ever got from a fellow director?

From Mira Nair.

On the Sets, at 25 Min 06 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3deXjh9X0_U
Panel interview at MAMI(Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) Film Festival

Charles Stross photo

“Venous blood isn’t really blue. In lipstick terms it’s dark plum, not crimson gloss.”

Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 13)