Belts Quotes - Page 18

• One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Heart, Artist, Flirting

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

  Mary McCarthy

  Fashion, Kissing, Clothes

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.

  Margaret Drabble

  Children, School, Flying

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• When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

  Caio Terra

  Numbers, Black, Technique

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• Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Gun, Austerity, Path

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Winning, Titles, Three

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• Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Obesity, Lanes, Traffic

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• Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know.

  Kazushi Sakuraba

  Fighting, Easier, Knows

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• I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

  Heather Morris

  Winter, Hair, Jeans

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• A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

  Margaret Halsey

  Missing, Cleaners, Has Beens

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

  Eugene Sue

  Ocean, Book, Ice

  Eugène Sue (1940). “The Wandering Jew”

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• The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  Aaron Belz

  Moving, Writing, Reality

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat. They notice all the details, then make assumptions about every other area of your life based on these details.

  Eben Pagan

  Women, Shoes, Details

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• The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, People, Fake

  Source: collider.com

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• My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

  Molly Quinn

  Skills, Green, Karate

  Source: collider.com

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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

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• I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

  George A. Romero

  Bible, Letters, Satan

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, Want, Plates

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Black, Degrees

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• Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

  Mark Hunt

  Kings, Class, Black

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• It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.

  Fraser Nelson

  Men, Comforting, Rust

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.

  Molly Shannon

  Character, Clothes, Shoes

  Source: collider.com

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