Wool famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
-- Charles James -
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
-- Charles Sturt -
A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
-- Donatella Versace -
For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
-- Ellen Tauscher -
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
-- Gary Coleman -
You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.
-- Heidi Klum -
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
-- Helen Gurley Brown -
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.
-- Huey Long -
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
-- Hugh Howey -
Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
-- Jack Johnson -
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
-- James A. Garfield -
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
-- Jim Elliot -
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
-- Joan Bauer -
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.
-- John Dryden -
the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
-- Leslie Marmon Silko -
Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.
-- Lisa Birnbach -
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
-- Nancy Grace -
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness
-- Osamu Dazai -
The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.
-- P. T. Barnum -
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
-- Pope Pius II -
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
-- Rumi -
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
-- Tracey Ullman -
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
-- Isaiah -
Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.
-- Martin Schulz -
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
-- Pierre de Ronsard