Jackets Quotes - Page 11

• If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn't like, you can bet your ass it ain't in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sky, Wife, Pairs

  "Ozzy Osbourne: I'm the Luckiest Man in the World". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2014.

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• The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

  Timothy Leary

  Latin, Mean, Ties

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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• In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not one, but one hundred different books—and book jackets... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

  Jessica Helfand

  Book, Men, Design

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• The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  People, Motorcycle, Young

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• Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Loss, Space

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.

  Miley Cyrus

  Cute, Fun, Unique

  "For young fashion fans, the 1980s are back" by Samantha Critchell, www2.readingeagle.com. December 21, 2008.

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• The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

  Markus Zusak

  Doors, Hands, Feet

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sweet, Heart

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• I did some embedded stuff. And if you are embedded, the only things you see are what the soldiers see, and if the people talk to you, they talk to you as if you are a soldier, because with your flak jacket and your helmet, they can't tell the difference between you and the soldier next to you, and they obviously won't tell you what they really think because they are afraid of you.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm get really into jackets from movies, Keanu Reeves' jackets and that, I don't know why, I just have such a thing for them.

  Ryan Jarman

  Get Real, Knows

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• For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

  Ann Coulter

  Years, Stories, Vietnam

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• Im obsessed with leather jackets!

  Joanna Garcia

  Leather Jackets, Obsessed, Leather

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• I can wear a suit, sweatpants, a long tee shirt, and a denim jacket all at the same time.

  Tinie Tempah

  Long, Denim, Suits

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

  Sam Levenson

  Sex, Home, Wife

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.

  Cher

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Long

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Buttons, Tweed, Graduates

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• My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

  Paloma Faith

  Swings, Denim, Over It

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• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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• The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Differences, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Denim, Skirts, Bohemian

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• Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Skirts, Week, Indigo

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• Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Mind, Dresses, Bohemian

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Simple, Sweaters, Clothes

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