Pairs Quotes - Page 2

• I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Stress, Numbers, Phones

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• My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nike, Growing Up, Father

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• Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

  Robert McCloskey

  Shoes, Meals, Next

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• One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.

  Jessica Szohr

  Couple, Years, Sunglasses

  "Jessica Szohr Styles Vogue Eyewear Shoppers!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.

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• My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Memories, Children, Father

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

  William Mathews

  Half, Should, Half Truth

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.

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• I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

  Steven Wright

  Reading, Glasses, Two

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• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Thinking, Ice, Careers

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 13, 2002.

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• Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Children, Shoes, Bears

  1977 Injury Time, ch.4.

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• In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Character, Eye, Blue

  Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

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• Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

  Linda Chavez

  Girl, Jeans, Back In The Day

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• Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

  Eugene Field

  Girl, Baby, Lungs

  Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”

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• I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

  Brendan Fehr

  Underwear, Lucky

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• I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Jeans, Shoes, Boots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

  McLean Stevenson

  Dirty, Sweaters, Pants

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• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Two, Transition

  Golden Skate Online Interview, goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Punk, Bondage

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• The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jeans, Age, Eras

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• At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

  Tea Leoni

  Golf, Shoes, Boots

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

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• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

  David Antin

  Lying, Men, White

  David Antin (1976). “Talking at the boundaries”, W W Norton & Co Inc

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• That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

  Harvey Keitel

  Shoes, Cobblers, Asking

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• How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Father, Women, Shoes

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• One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

  James Howell

  Hair, Oxen, Hundred

  'Familiar Letters' (1645-55) bk. 2, letter 4

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• When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

  Sheena Easton

  Jeans, Twenties, Looks

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• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Men, Shoes, Boots

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