Suits Quotes - Page 21

• I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

  Channing Tatum

  Strong, Musical, Singing

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• There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hands

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.97

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• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Passion, Prejudice

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run

  John Weitz

  Running, Fashion, Clothes

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, Going Away, Pay

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• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  Drew Carey

  Hair, Ties, Guy

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• Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

  Alan Bennett

  Awards, Would Be, Knighthood

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• In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.

  Jonathan Raban

  Moving, Cities, Clothes

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Weight, Able

  "Chinua Achebe: A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2010.

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• If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

  John Ralston Saul

  Money, Doctors, Today

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Gentleman, Band

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.

  Tina Fey

  Country, War, Patriotic

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Ties

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

  C. S. Lewis

  Gun, Men, Evil

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• When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.

  Graham Parker

  Kids, Cutting, Boys

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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  George Harrison

  Mistake, Self, People

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• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Shooting, Kind, Trouble

  "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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• Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

  George Hamilton

  Climate, Tuxedos, Use

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

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Kings, Crazy, Adventure

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