Uniforms Quotes - Page 5

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  Kate Smith

  Years, White, Nurse

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• As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Men, Danger

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Jeans, Dresses, Pressure

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• Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

  Pete Rose

  Retired, Stills

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• I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Team, Struggle

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

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• I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Organization, Disrespect

  "Speech should be required reading" by Susan Crowell, www.farmanddairy.com. August 4, 2005.

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• I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my manager Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did? He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Can you imagine that! Guess Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Different, Letters, Red

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• Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Freedom, Women, Generations

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• Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

  Giambattista Vico

  Truth, Ideas, Common

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press

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• He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.

  Warren Winiarski

  Wine, Two, Imagination

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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  Lance Loud

  Cutting, Gay, Men

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• Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

  Patrick Stump

  Hipster, Plus

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• Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

  James T. Walsh

  Women, Home, Government

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• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fashion, Variables, Election

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• I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

  Kanye West

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. Ive made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.

  Steve Garvey

  Fun, Transition, Looks

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• The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Kings, Enemy, Allies

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• For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

  Elle Fanning

  Love, Baby, School

  "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

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• It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

  Norman Spinrad

  Mean, Thinking, Age

  "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Civilization, Tree, Alive

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• The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Work, Math, Construction

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• I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

  Cole Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Disposition

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• I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

  Kate Moss

  Jobs, School, Years

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

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• Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Artist, Men

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Friends, Jobs, Together

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