Towels Quotes

• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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• A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.

  Willis Regier

  Lying, Sleep, Compassion

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

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• Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.

  Otto Graham

  Sweat, Use, Faces

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• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Douglas Adams

  Struggle, Winning, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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• Go, and never darken my towels again

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Duck Soup (motion picture) (1933). Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

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• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

  Peter David

  Cute Funny, Events, Tides

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• There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

  Jay Samit

  Giving Up, Differences, Trying

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

  Esther Williams

  Jobs, Order, Swim

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Song, Garden, Delight

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.195, Verso

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Bullets, Study

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• I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

  R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

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• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Doctors, Knives

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• Another thing I also recommend is washing your face with white towels, little white towels instead of your hands. Other towels have dye in them and, with water on them, I just don't mess around with that. This way you're not getting your hands back on your dirty face as you're washing it. You're going to see what's coming off.

  June Diane Raphael

  Dirty, Hands, White

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Guy, Hey

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• Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

  Charles Revson

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

  Eloisa James

  Velvet, Peers, Meetings

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• It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

  Kenny Rogers

  Naked, Disappointed, Wet

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• Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

  Lincoln Peirce

  Mean, School, Baths

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• I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

  Maira Kalman

  Mother, Names, Lunch

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• I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, Ideas, Oil

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1832, Penguin

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• I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Names, Want

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