Leather Quotes - Page 11

• I started to duck under the spears, only to have the two vamps on the other wall suddenly appear in my face. Or, at least, their crotches did. Another day, I would have made a cute remark about heat and leather jock straps, but I wasn’t feeling real cute right now.

  Karen Chance

  Cute, Wall, Real

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.376, Penguin

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• My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Education, Learning

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  Mark Burnett

  Desert, Like You, Chairs

  "Traveling with the Stars: Mark Burnett". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Men, Shoes, Morocco

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• Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Baby, Home, Break Out

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• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Strong, Real, Reading

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Fur

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• I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

  Nicole Krauss

  Notebook, Dad, Writing

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• No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sports, Leather Jackets, Guy

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• 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.

  Natalia Vodianova

  White, Fake, Saint

  "How I get dressed" by Natalia Vodianova, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.

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• One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Reason, Said

  "Shakespeare Jest Books, Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies", No. 86, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

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• Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Want, He Man

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 203 (1734)

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• Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Dating, Romance

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• On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Media, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Library”

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• It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

  John Waters

  Editing, Years, Leather Jackets

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

  Willow Smith

  Leather Pants, Kind, Sometimes

  "Willow Smith shows off wild side in Karl Lagerfeld photo shoot, but says she just wants to 'chill'" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2014.

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• All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.

  Dave Dravecky

  Baseball, Rocks, Years

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• Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Character, Leather Jackets, Jeans

  Source: collider.com

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• Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

  Stacy London

  Style, May, Want

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• The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.

  Libba Bray

  Hipster, Crazy, Black And White

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.113, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Shoes, Survival, Cows

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• Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way.

  Percy Knauth

  Airplane, Airports, Years

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• The thing that sometimes gets lost is people look at the harder edge of me ... the leather jacket and the tough rock 'n' roll attitude... and get the wrong impression that I'm mean. That's really something I don't want people to think because I don't think that's the case.

  Joan Jett

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dream, Blonde, Action

  Source: collider.com

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