Coats famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In winter, some voices are like coats.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.
-- Alan Bennett -
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
-- Albert Brooks -
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
-- Anais Nin -
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees...
-- Andrew of Crete -
The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
-- Belva Plain -
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I don't care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.
-- Billy Casper -
Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?
-- Bobby Gould -
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
-- C.P. Snow -
I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique
-- Catherine Fisher -
People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
-- Christian Louboutin -
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
-- Clara Barton -
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
-- Daniel Dennett -
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
-- David Mitchell -
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.
-- David Walton -
Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?
-- Don Hertzfeldt -
Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
-- Doris Day -
Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.
-- Dylan Moran -
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.
-- E. J. Hughes -
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
-- Edgar Guest -
Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.
-- Edgar Guest -
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
-- Edwin Arnold -
Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
-- Elizabeth Smart -
Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
-- Emo Philips -
each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
-- Erica Jong -
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
-- Garry Kasparov -
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
-- Gemma Arterton -
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.
-- Gene Logsdon -
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
-- Giordano Bruno -
Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.
-- Glenda Jackson -
The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.
-- Greg Behrendt -
The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.
-- Harold Innis -
Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
-- Helen Waddell -
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
-- Henry Rollins -
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.
-- Henry Watson Fowler -
Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.
-- Homer -
The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.
-- Honorius Augustodunensis -
Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
-- Isabel Briggs Myers -
Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]
-- J.R. Ward -
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
-- James A. Garfield -
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
-- Jenny Offill -
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
-- Jim Butcher -
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
-- John Cheever -
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
-- Joseph Addison -
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
-- Juvenal -
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
-- Kage Baker -
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.
-- Kim Harrison -
He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.
-- Lancelot Andrewes -
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.
-- Mark Powell -
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
-- Mary Oliver -
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
-- Maud Hart Lovelace -
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
-- Maureen Johnson -
Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.
-- Max Irons -
You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory
-- Michael Scott -
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
-- Muriel Barbery -
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.
-- Nancy Kress -
Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
-- Natalia Vodianova -
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'
-- Neil L. Andersen -
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
-- Nicolas Malebranche -
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
-- Peter De Vries -
The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.
-- Peter Maurin -
The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink.
-- Pierre Balmain -
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.
-- R.J. Ellory -
I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
-- Rumer Willis -
Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon
-- Ryan Adams -
The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.
-- Saint Basil -
I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.
-- Shelly Crane -
I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.
-- Sloane Crosley -
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.
-- Suzy Parker -
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
-- Sydney J. Harris -
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
-- Terry Tempest Williams -
Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.
-- Theodor Billroth -
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler -
The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
-- Theodore Parker -
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
-- Thomas Hartwell Horne -
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
-- Tiger Woods -
I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.
-- Tony Vincent -
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
-- Trey Parker -
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.
-- Ursula Goodenough
