Jackets Quotes - Page 12

• Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.

  Bubba Watson

  Winning, Green, Diapers

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• It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

  Bubba Watson

  Dream, Florida, Green

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• What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Imagination, Needs, Terrible

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• I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.

  Noah Baumbach

  Dad, Thinking, Childhood

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• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Black And White, Leather Jackets, Sweaters

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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 believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Believe

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• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  Nate Berkus

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Ties

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• Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

  Julian Casablancas

  Shoes, Guy, Stuff

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• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

  Thom Browne

  Simple, Men, Cities

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• The words of the Lord are found in the scriptures and the teachings of the apostles and prophets. They provide us counsel and direction that, when followed, will act like a spiritual life jacket and will help us know how to hold on with both hands.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Teaching, Hands

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• So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

  Laura Kipnis

  Love Is, Vocabulary, Order

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• One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is — I don't wear this black suit-white shirt combination all the time to try and be iconic — but because I'm most comfortable in this. Cary Grant never turned up in a pink jacket and hot pants and I don't feel the need to experiment when I know I like dressing this way.

  Tom Ford

  White, Black, Important

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• At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

  Chris Burden

  Feet, Long, Rifles

  Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”

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• On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Leather Jackets, Next Steps

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• I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

  Elayne Boosler

  Rip, Grandma, Heart

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• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Light, Exclamation Points

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 17, 2014

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• There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.

  Stacy London

  Cutting, Creating, Doe

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style Deluxe”, p.49, Penguin

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• I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh fabulous jacket', and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath'.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Fabulous, Pajamas, Like You

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• How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

  Pat McBride

  Fall, Color, Perspective

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• I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Barbie, Ems

  Song: 1234

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• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Uplifting, Art, Self Confidence

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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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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• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  Edward VII

  Fashion, Morning, Views

  To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus 'Edward VII' (1964) ch. 19

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