Coats Quotations

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

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.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

I don't care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Senator Coats and Congress were very careful to craft a law that was constitutionally sound while at the same time effectively addressed American family concerns about the distribution of commercial pornography on the Internet.

She had one of those ball paddles she used on me, and a paint stick that was layered with several coats of paint so it wouldn't break.

I work on the floor with them. Lab coats scare them, so for the animals, it's better to wear regular clothes.

He came out of the Cabinet room. The helicopter had landed. People were getting on their coats to run off to the helicopter.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

Three jolly gentlemen, / In coats of red, / Rode their horses / Up to bed.

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning,

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

There's nothing of the Old West in those places, and you see lots of fur coats and Rolls-Royces.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

People see me in there working and they take off their coats and start to help.

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.

They're actually doing beautifully now their in great health, their coats are shiny and their eyes are bright now and they're really healthy dogs now.

It seems like everyone is showing a pretty spring coat. Ideally, they're in a beautiful print. I think women will love that and some of the coats are so light they still can be worn when it's warmer.

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

But he didn't get to build the house until he retired in 1985 from Coats and Clark Thread Mill after 43 years of service.

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?

When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

I don't want to make the mistake of going too early. One time when I was working for Godolphin, we left Dubai on April 10, and when we got to New York there was a half-foot of snow on the ground and it was 35 degrees. The horses went from having slick coats to long hair in a week.

For old people and people with disabilities, winter is an enormous problem. We know people who just don't go out in winter, because by the time they've got their coats and boots on, they're exhausted.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

God sends the cold according to the coat.

Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.