Overcoat Quotes

• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosophical, Destiny, Grieving

  'Democracy and other Addresses' (1887) 'Democracy'

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• She carries chaos like an overcoat.

  Ann Aguirre

  Chaos, Carrie

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.220, Penguin

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• Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Mind Blowing, Culture

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• Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Imagination, Laboratory

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• We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gogol, Russian Literature

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• Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

  Wilson Mizner

  Party, Wind, Popularity

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Pain, Party, Men

  Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”

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• In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

  John Malkovich

  New York, Suits, Hats

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• The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

  Peter Carey

  Real, Lying, Buttons

  1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.43,'Leviathan'.

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• A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

  Charles Peguy

  Writing, Tears, Pockets

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• My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

  William Tyndale

  Dark, Lamps, Sitting

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• I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

  Dorothy Parker

  Regret, Eye, Men

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• Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
  He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
  In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Men, Solitude

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

  James Joyce

  Daughter, Running, Book

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1587, e-artnow

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• This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man.

  Dada Vaswani

  Men, Body, Shirts

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• The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

  Frank Peretti

  Pain, Father, Lying

  Frank Peretti (2012). “Prophet: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

  Bill Shankly

  Men, Four, Has Beens

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• Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.

  Lydia Davis

  Running, Morning, Taken

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• My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

  Steve Sabol

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

  James Thurber

  Taken, House, Feelings

  1933 On humorists. My Life and Hard Times, preface.

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• A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

  John A. Macdonald

  House, Gentleman, Firsts

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• I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

  Jack Irons

  Running, Abbey Road, Waiting

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

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• I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."

  Alan Bennett

  Beautiful, Mother, Land

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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