Gloves Quotes - Page 2

• The lost glove is happy.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Lost

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.15, Vintage

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• The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Feel Better, Men, Suits

  "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

  Morton Feldman

  Art, Purpose, Shapes

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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• I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

  Mike Modano

  Hockey, Nhl

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• I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Boys, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

  Robin Hobb

  Velvet, Fists, Cloaks

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.3219, Del Rey

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Baseball, Slumps, Looks

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• I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

  Jimmy Dean

  Men, Hands, Jail

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Athlete, Things In Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Birthday, Age

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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• I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

  Stephen Colbert

  Boxing, Assassins, Satire

  "The man in the Irony Mask" by Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October 2007.

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Venus De Milo, Boxing, Missing

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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• History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

  Amy Waldman

  Japan, People, Novelists

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• If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

  Gerald McRaney

  School, Fighting, Winning

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• When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Lying, Voice, Passionate

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• When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

  Don Drysdale

  Curves, Want, Pitching

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• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Spades, Prove

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Games

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• But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Winning, Awards

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• Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Oscars, Golden, Fantastic

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• I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

  Rod Carew

  Baseball, Team, Moving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Blow

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