Hats Quotes - Page 28

• When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

  Arthur Bryant

  Kings, Royal, Quaker

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• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  Edward VII

  Fashion, Morning, Views

  To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus 'Edward VII' (1964) ch. 19

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• The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

  Nancy Milford

  Fashion, Flower, Horror

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• Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Dirty, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

  Nancy Spain

  Clothes, Hair, Peculiar

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• Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Mirrors, Black

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

  Lindsey Wixson

  Vintage, Kansas, Antiques

  "Lindsey Wixson's a Mad Hatter" by EmilyHebert, www.elle.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Humble, Guy, Flags

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• A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

  George Jones

  Artist, Jeans, Noses

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Writing, Ties

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• When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,
  Woman's a thousand steps behind.
  [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus
  Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Devil, Steps

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• I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

  Eric Idle

  Boys, Class, Middle

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• The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

  Eric Idle

  Getting Older, Cry, Getting Old

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Priceless

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• I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Atheism, Beard

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• No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether online or on our phones. We wear so many different hats within one day, one week, a lifetime.

  Riz Ahmed

  Jobs, Phones, People

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• I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.

  Dule Hill

  Feet, Average, Giving

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• I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

  Katie McGrath

  Fashion, High Heels, Jeans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

  Ashley Jensen

  Jobs, Kids, Mum

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• [On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.

  Lilly Dache

  Mother, Careers, Littles

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• For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Home, Simple, White

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

  Ken Stott

  Dark, Light, Play

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• My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

  Christine Lakin

  Real, Night, Years

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• That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

  LeBron James

  Jobs, Team, Nba Championships

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