Coats Quotes - Page 25

• Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

  Li Bai

  Sweet, Horse, Flower

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• 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

  Wish, Firsts, Painting

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• Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Morning, Fire, Oil

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.77, Island Press

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• Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?

  Bobby Gould

  Stills

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• 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

  Clothes, Looks, Mink

  In 'Observer' 25 December 1955

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