Gloves Quotes

• If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

  Marvin Hagler

  Cutting, Boxing, Bigs

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• True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Roots, Bears

  May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.135, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Purses, Ifs

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• One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

  Sherwood Smith

  Self, Stones, Pairs

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• I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

  Vincent Tan

  Football, League, Sunglasses

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• The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

  Imogen Heap

  Skins, Extensions

  "How Gloves and Wearable Tech Could Change Music Performance: In Depth with Imogen Heap and Team". CDM Interview, cdm.link. April 24, 2014.

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• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Anger, Revolution, Silk

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• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Integrity, Hands, Needs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.75, Sparklesoup LLC

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• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  May, Messages, Lost

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• Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

  Jean Paul

  Love Is, Hands, Band

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• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Doe, Charming

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• I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Thinking, Sitting Down

  Song: Thunder On The Mountain, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• Iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Power, Hands, Iron

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• A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.

  Demetri Martin

  Hands, Puppets, Literal

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2012

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• I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

  Libba Bray

  Hands, Two, Starting

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• Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Iron, Velvet

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• good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tender Is The Night, Manners, Admission

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Character, Personality, Hats

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• You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

  Vladimir Lenin

  White, Revolution, Rebellious

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• Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fall, Kids, Artist

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• Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Kids, Hands

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

  Adrian Grenier

  Winter, Thinking, Doe

  FaceBook post by Adrian Grenier from Dec 04, 2011

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• Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

  Multatuli

  Truth, Two, Half

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

  Rickey Henderson

  Moving, Home, Guy

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