Leather Quotes - Page 12

• I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.

  T.I.

  Sweaters, Coats, Suits

  "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Some directors hand over portions of their movie to their head of department to the point where it's like, "I'm not going to talk to you about the costumes, but I'm going to let you talk to the expert." Rather than, "You want to talk stitching, let's talk stitching. You want to talk grade of leather? Let's."

  Idris Elba

  Hands, Directors, Experts

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 4, 2016.

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• [As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Nice, Leather Pants, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Brother, Real, Rocks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

  Bette Davis

  Artist, Shoes, Actors

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody.

  Jaime King

  Beautiful, Patents, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

  Alexandra Paul

  Wool, Silk

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• No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

  Ted Williams

  Eye, Smell, Focus

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• Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don't think anyone's every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She's an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can't even hear.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Style, Singers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Concurring hands divide
  
  flax for damask
  that when bleached by Irish weather
  has the silvered chamois-leather
  water-tightness of a
  skin.

  Marianne Moore

  Work, Hands, Weather

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.113, Penguin

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• In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.41, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Gay

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.90, Random House

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• As estimated, you died. Things marched,
  sufficient, to that end.
  Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
  terror, so many routine cries.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Death, Routine, Cry

  Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Black And White, Leather Jackets, Sweaters

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• If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Leather Pants, Law, Practice

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• Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way.

  Percy Knauth

  Airplane, Airports, Years

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• I've always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dream, Blonde, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Colored leather is my favorite. To me, there's nothing more fun than wearing a cobalt blue leather skirt or a fuchsia leather jacket.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fun, Blue, Leather Jackets

  "Mindy Kaling on Her Dream Mindy Project Guest Star and Style Tips From Mindy Lahiri". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 27, 2013.

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• As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Teacher, Father, Law

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• President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.

  Greg Proops

  Friday, White, House

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

  Steve Coogan

  Book, Hard Work, Home

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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• Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
  [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]

  Martial

  Cobblers, Remember, Memento

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• By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

  Robyn Davidson

  Clothes, Skins, Naked

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black

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