Coats Quotes - Page 16

• You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I’d never write it that way now.” He patted his lab coat pockets. “Red pen—does anyone have one?” Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn’t say I was tempted, but I kept her under control. “Since when does drool make you powerful?

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Hate, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• 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

  Boys, Feelings, May

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• Doughboy, we need to talk.” Doughboy opened his wax eyes. “Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you’ve remembered that you need my brilliant guidance.” “Actually we need to become a coat.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Needs, Lasts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Hey. Hands off.” ", "“Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” "“Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Cowboy, Hands, Wearing Pink

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• 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

  Pockets, Cracks, Bulls

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

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• The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Party, Missing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.119, e-artnow

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• 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

  Choices, Trying, Want

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I’m going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Regret, Nice, Sunshine

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• You know, Talon. Towels look really good on you. You go outside like that and you’ll start a whole new fashion craze. (Sunshine) Do you always say everything that comes to your mind? (Talon) Mostly. I do have some thoughts I keep to myself. I used to not care and would say anything at all, but then one time my college roommate called the psycho unit on me. You know, they really do have white coats. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fashion, Sunshine, College

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• I'm here," she said, skidding to a stop. "Can we go now?" Sebastian insisted on helping her on with the coat. "I don't think anyone's ever helped me with my coat before," Clary observed, freeing the hair that had gotten trapped under her collar. "Well, maybe waiters. Were you ever a waiter?" "No, but I was brought up by a Frenchwoman," Sebastian reminded her. "It involves an even more rigorous course of training.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hair, Training

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

  Helen Waddell

  Truth, Onions, Hollow

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

  Beatrix Potter

  Gentleman, Gold, Ruffles

  Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Looks

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• A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.

  Seymour Hicks

  Sex, Men, Wife

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• Rose: "I was testing dorm security. It sucks." Dimitri: "You must be freezing. Do you want my coat?" Rose: "I'm fine. What are you doing out here? Are you testing security too?" Dimitri: "I am security. This is my watch." Rose: "Well, good work. I'm glad I was able to help test your awesome skills." - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov (Shadow Kiss)

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Skills, Rose

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• 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.

  Matt Groening

  Work Out, Exam, Plans

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• 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

  Shoes, Naked, Needs

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• Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Fall, Eye

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• 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

  Fashion, Arms, Buffalo

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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