Leather Quotes - Page 9

• A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.

  Nick Morgan

  Jobs, Cutting, Knives

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• When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

  Maureen Dowd

  Writing, Thinking, Black

  "Comics in context #78: summoned to sin city" by Peter Sanderson, www.ign.com. April 1, 2005.

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• The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really happens, thirty-seven percent of this population is going to lose their minds. Oh my God, the world is over! Us sixty-three percent? We're going to go, Hey... there's no one watching the Lexus dealership! We're going to the Apocalypse with leather and a CD changer! You guys have been great. Thank you.

  Christopher Titus

  Mean, Cds, Guy

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Fire, Knives

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.468, Penguin

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• I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, School, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.44, A&C Black

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• Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Girly, Hate

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• There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—” Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. “—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we’ve known them all our lives.

  Gaelen Foley

  Eye, Curves, Light

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• Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few minutes. Right up until he unzipped his leather pants and pulled out Mr. One Eye.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Leather Pants, Let It Go

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

  Paul Dudley White

  Shoes, Feet, Needs

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• There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Suits, Riding, Bikers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

  Jeremy Piven

  Men, Sound, Lamborghini

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• I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

  Sasha Grey

  Cutting, Race, Leather Jackets

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• I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

  Ketch Secor

  Brother, School, Over You

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

  Shaun White

  Simple, Leather Jackets, Gold

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

  Pamela Love

  Looks, Use, Vests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Book, Mao, Structure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.

  Ben Affleck

  Feelings, Movement, Red

  "Hollywoodland - Ben Affleck interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well, in terms of the filming with the car, you always wanted to be on the side which the cameras weren't, because - and it sounds ridiculous, but getting in and out of that car, all in leather, in the heat, was a problem.

  Imogen Poots

  Car, Sides, Cameras

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's Deadpool. I think the world that he explores is a much seedier, everyday sort of ordinary type world. But he still lives in that universe. It still has to sit next to all these other films.

  Timothy Miller

  Thinking, Everyday, Next

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Laughter, Lying

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• The peace of great books be for you,
  Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
  Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Light, Years

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cause I’m gonna put my foot so far up their butts they’re going to burp shoe leather. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Shoes, Feet, Causes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.56, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Wall, Book, World

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

  Emo Philips

  Morning, Heart, Order

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• For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

  Robert Orben

  Father, Kids, Smell

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