Gloves Quotes

• If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

  Marvin Hagler

  Cutting, Boxing, Bigs

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• The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

  Imogen Heap

  Skins, Extensions

  "How Gloves and Wearable Tech Could Change Music Performance: In Depth with Imogen Heap and Team". CDM Interview, cdm.link. April 24, 2014.

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• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Anger, Revolution, Silk

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• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Integrity, Hands, Needs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.75, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Thinking, Sitting Down

  Song: Thunder On The Mountain, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Doe, Charming

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• Iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Power, Hands, Iron

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• A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.

  Demetri Martin

  Hands, Puppets, Literal

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2012

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• Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Iron, Velvet

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• Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

  Jean Paul

  Love Is, Hands, Band

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• All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Character, Personality, Hats

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• You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

  Vladimir Lenin

  White, Revolution, Rebellious

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• The lost glove is happy.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Lost

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.15, Vintage

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• Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

  Multatuli

  Truth, Two, Half

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

  Robin Hobb

  Velvet, Fists, Cloaks

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.3219, Del Rey

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• Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Kids, Hands

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As if the world and they were hand and glove.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Hypocrisy, World

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.51

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• I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

  Mike Modano

  Hockey, Nhl

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• If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Purses, Lifts, Ifs

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• I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

  Chris Martin

  Next, Minutes, Spats

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• The cat in gloves catches no mice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cat, Poor Richard, Mice

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

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• A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

  Trick Daddy

  Thug, Decision, Skins

  Trick Daddy, Peter Bailey (2010). “Magic City: Trials of a Native Son”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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