Straw Hats Quotes

• You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

  Alison Krauss

  Honesty, Soul, Hay

  "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

  Bernard Baruch

  Summer, Hats, Wintertime

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• Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

  Margaret George

  Frost, Hats, Window

  Margaret George (2011). “Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles”, p.743, Pan Macmillan

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• Year's end still in straw hat and sandals

  Matsuo Basho

  Years, Hats, Ends

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.126 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Garden, Hands, Clothes

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.

  Desi Arnaz

  Typical, Use, Faces

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• He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.

  Derek Landy

  Cowboy, Pie, Style

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• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  William Shatner

  Summer, Kids, East

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• The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Horse, Technology, Long

  "Look Who's Talking". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

  Billy Wilder

  Animal, Turkeys, Elephants

  "Fictional character: "Bim" Nolan". "The Lost Weekend", 1945.

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• Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

  Benjamin Graham

  Winter, Investing, Hats

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• When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

  Harry Styles

  School, Math, Wish

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2013

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• At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
  Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
  They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
  A music club and music warehouse pretty.

  Heinrich Heine

  Cities, Clubs, May

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.21

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• It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Issues, Church

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.173, Canongate Books

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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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• Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

  Eiichiro Oda

  Law, Enemy, Enmity

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• The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Cutting, Men

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

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• The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Running, Wine, Guy

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• I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Tea, Littles

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press

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