Suits Quotes - Page 22

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

Nick Rhodes

Trust, Letting Go, Ideas

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Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

Mao Zedong

Attitude, Two, Different

"On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" by Mao Zedong, June 1957.

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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Mother, Fun, Heart

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Barack puts on his suit and tie [and] he's out the door — I'm getting my hair, makeup, the kids, I gotta brush their hair. You know, he's always looking like 'where are you? where are you going?' But yeah, you know — it's fun to look pretty.

Michelle Obama

Fun, Kids, Makeup

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Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

Donna Karan

Body, Layers, Firsts

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The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

Issey Miyake

Rain, Moving, Fall

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When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

Flannery O'Connor

Views, Waiting, Gazing

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When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.

Eric Clapton

Music, Song, Real

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And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Amy Irving

Fitness, Fashion, Baby

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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

James Lovelock

Whales, Atmosphere, Viruses

James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Don Drysdale

Baseball, Years, Two

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Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare

Special, Acting, Modesty

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

Charles Spurgeon

Running, Long, Doubt

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We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!

Barbara Mikulski

Fighting, Squares, Equal Pay

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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

Paul Simon

Photography, Men, Spy

"America," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 album Bookends.

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The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

Marcel Proust

Character, Often Is, Opposites

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I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

Jalen Rose

Night, Hands, White

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We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

Elisabeth Elliot

Bending, Yoke, Bows

Elisabeth Elliot (1989). “On Asking God why”, Fleming H Revell Company

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Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date.
1. You're wearing that?
2. Something smells funny.
3. Where's the Tylenol?
4. And to think, I first wanted to date your brother.
5. I have a confession to make…
6. My dad has a suit just like that.
7. That man is hot. Look at him.
8. My ex, may he rot in hell forever…
9. You're going to order that? Seriously?
10. You're how old?

Gena Showalter

Brother, Dad, Men

Gena Showalter (2007). “Animal Instincts”, p.3, HQN Books

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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

Leslie Fiedler

Hands, Interesting, Sound

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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Paul Theroux

Country, People, Politician

Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.343, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Frank Wedekind

Looks, Virtue, Figures

Frank Wedekind (2014). “Wedekind Plays: 1: Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy, Lulu: A Monster Tragedy”, p.55, A&C Black

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We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

Alex Ferguson

Football, Weekend, Winning

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It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Men, Hands, My Own

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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

J. L. Carr

Memories, Lying, Writing

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