Jackets Quotes - Page 14

• Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Blue, Yellow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Disappointment, Hysteria

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Hard Work

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Echoes, Wind

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

  Sandra Bullock

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

  Graydon Carter

  Party, Years, Oscars

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Rocks, Leather Jackets

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

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• It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Glasses, Want Something

  "Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language". Interview with Vikki Valentine and Jon Hamilton, www.npr.org. July 9, 2006.

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• When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

  Brian Greene

  Dark, Environmental, Energy

  "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos". Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

  Alicia Keys

  Vintage, Feelings, Motorcycle

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• I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Nice, Jeans

  "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.

  John Lydon

  Leather Jackets, Leather, Knows

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Ideas, Mixing, Speech

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Years, Rugby

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• It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

  Arthur Smith

  Men, Leather Jackets, Age

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• Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

  Johnny Weir

  Trying, Tweed, Skating

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• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

  James Wolcott

  Art, Book, Design

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• I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

  Alber Elbaz

  Morning, Weekend, Definitions

  "How I get dressed" by Alber Elbaz, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

  Woody Allen

  Sports, Home, Night

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• If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

  Anne Fadiman

  Soul, Naked, Eternity

  Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

  Rachel Bilson

  Cute, Sweaters, Climate

  "Rachel Bilson Shares Her Top Fall Piperlime Purchases" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.

  David Almond

  Book, Discovery, Cities

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• ...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed her legs. I didn't need a mirror to know my whole face had just turned red. With a hemline up to her thighs that gesture didn't leave anything to the imagination. Bones curled his fingers around mine and squeezed. His hand was still warmed from our contact moments ago. That's how fast he had to grab me again to keep me sitting where I was instead of yanking off my jacket to make her a pair of panties.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mirrors, Hands, Opposites

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• You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled. 'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.' Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket.

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Trying, Sound

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• Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Pockets, Plums

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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