Coats Quotes - Page 18

• I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Changeling - Clint Eastwood interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

  Theodore Parker

  Fashion, Arms, Buffalo

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  Belva Plain

  Sorrow, Worn, Worn Out

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• The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Uniforms, Should, Scarlet

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• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Frankly, I think that fur on a man is difficult to pull off. If it's the warmth you're after, then I'd go with a fur-lined coat - it won't show.

  Tim Gunn

  Men, Thinking, Fur

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Jamaica, Generations, Culture

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.125, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

  Helen Waddell

  Truth, Onions, Hollow

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Fur, Stuff, Hell

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stop being frightened. You only see a monster because they want you to see monsters everywhere. They've conditioned you to look for monsters in every shadow, every coat hung on every door. As long as we keep seeing monsters, we'll continue to need protection and that's how other people get to control our lives.

  Grant Morrison

  Doors, Long, People

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• I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Flower, Two

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

  Milla Jovovich

  Trousers, Sensibility

  "Model Minute: Mila Jovovich". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 13, 2013.

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• I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.

  Milla Jovovich

  "Model Minute: Mila Jovovich". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 13, 2013.

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• So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

  Mark Steyn

  Men, Past, White

  "STEYN: It’s not about health care". www.washingtontimes.com. March 7, 2010.

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• Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Men, Body

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

  Elliott Abrams

  Mean, Winter, Years

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• I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

  Anne Robinson

  Holiday, Thinking, People

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Generations, Paint, Merry Go Round

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• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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