Leather Quotes - Page 13

• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hunting, Hair, Clothes

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• So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

  Chamillionaire

  Car, Hip Hop, Horns

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• Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, Cutting, Care

  Review of Nabokov's Lolita, 1958.

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• If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

  Jackie French

  Life, Heart, Soul

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• I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Two

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• I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Simple, Leather Jackets, Jeans

  "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.

  Leona Lewis

  Animal, Vintage, Shoes

  Press call, October 2007.

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• A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Pieces

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• His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ignorance, Hands, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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• I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

  Dean Winters

  Beautiful, Heart, Shopping

  "Dean Winters Is Pretty Stylish for an Insurance Salesman". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the 68 Comeback Special.

  Suzi Quatro

  Men, Impact, Mind

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• Speak, what trade art thou?
  Why, sir, a carpenter.
  Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
  What does thou with thy best apparel on?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Aprons, Doe

  Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.3, Orient Blackswan

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

  Edith Head

  Leather Pants, Two, Clothes

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Jeans, Long

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• Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Ideas, Hands

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week. Nobody would be offended, nobody would think my leather pants are too controversial.

  Jen Kirkman

  Tired, Thinking, Leather Pants

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Football, Boys, Rubber

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• There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Baseball, Country

  John Updike (2006). “Rabbit Redux”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

  Martina Navratilova

  Animal, Long, Able

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• Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Power, Sight, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

  Margaret Cho

  War, Love Yourself, Today

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". Documentary, Comedy, 2002.

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• Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Leather Pants, Tiles

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.758, Penguin

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