Coats Quotes - Page 17

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

Clint Eastwood

Thinking, Important, Trying

"Changeling - Clint Eastwood interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

Fanny Fern

Ignorance, Omission, Color

Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114

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I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

Totie Fields

Ostriches, Clothes, Ruffles

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The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

Antoine Rivarol

Arms, Individual, Pronouns

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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

Clothes, Want, Standing Out

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... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Belva Plain

Sorrow, Worn, Worn Out

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The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

Honorius Augustodunensis

Uniforms, Should, Scarlet

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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Missing, Firsts, Succeed

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.130, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

Samuel R. Delany

Hair, Land, Sky

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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, ‘She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.

Lawrence Durrell

Beautiful, Kissing, Long

Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

Ilka Chase

Mother, Baby, Bores You

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I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.

Shelly Crane

Bakers, Sugar

Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.46, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

Billy Collins

Book, Son, Night

Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

Herman Melville

Reading, Book, Men

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.

Suzy Menkes

Eye, Fire, Hands

"Suzy Menkes: If Clothes Could Talk". Interview with Suzy Menkes, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 28, 2013.

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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

William James

Wall, Truth, Reality

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

O. Henry

Life, Men, Sides

O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1399, ShandonPress

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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

Karl Kraus

Thinking, Important, Trying

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

Alice Miller

Summer, Running, Children

Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

Anna Julia Cooper

Girl, School, College

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I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.

Henry David Thoreau

Integrity, Men, Tree

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.179, Jazzybee Verlag

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A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

Pierre-Jean de Beranger

Men, Society, Dismissal

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Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

Lord Chesterfield

Men, Clothes, Next

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She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

Ahdaf Soueif

Dark, Thinking, Air

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There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Fashion, Men, Doubt

"Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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