Hats Quotes - Page 29

• Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

  Joan Robinson

  Views, Rabbits, Economic

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• I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Way, Walks

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.227, Random House

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• Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

  George W. S. Trow

  Wish, Fedoras, Irony

  George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Halloween, Party

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• No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Way

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• My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

  Robert Crais

  Thinking, Police, My Family

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• A hat is an expression of a woman’s soul. It is something that she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, smart, and sure of herself.

  Lilly Dache

  Beautiful, Smart, Heart

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• Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Baby, Government, Dynamite

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• I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

  Robin Ince

  Giving, Goes On, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Past, Night

  "Paul Weller heads across the universe on 'Saturns Pattern'". Associated Press interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 10, 2015.

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• I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Accessories, Jewelry, Bigs

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• And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Maturity, Views, Circles

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• I love him so very much. As Romeo did Jugurtha, as Pyramid did Thirsty, as-" "Oh, please, no need to elaborate further," interjected Alexia, wincing. "But what would my family SAY to such a union?" "They would say that yours hats had leaked into your head," muttered Alexia, unheard under her breath.

  Gail Carriger

  I Love Him, Pyramids, Needs

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• Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Nuggets, Forget

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• All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

  John Banville

  Party, People, Vacuums

  John Banville (2011). “Eclipse”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

  Lisa Kleypas

  Way, Virgins

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

  Anais Nin

  Giving, Strange, Illusion

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• Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people have never been important to me, Kate Connolly. Puck Connolly." I tip my face up to look at him, finally. The blanket falls off my shoulders, and my hat, too, loosened by the wind. I can't read his expression--his narrow eyes make it difficult. I say, "And now?" Kendrick reaches to turn up the collar on his jacket. He doesn't smile, but he's not as close to frowning as usual. "Thanks for the cake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dirty, Fall, Eye

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• He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

  James Joyce

  Attitude, Dark, Light

  James Joyce (2016). “DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead”, p.164, e-artnow

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• Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Missing, Fit

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• Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

  Robert Jordan

  Trying, Floating, Saws

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• Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

  Robert Jordan

  Light, Mouths, Sides

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.635, Macmillan

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• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Keys, Doors

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