Nylon Quotes

• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Firsts, Kind

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• I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

  Billy Wilder

  Religion, Church, Bags

  "Fictional character: Lorraine Minosa". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

  Big Joe Turner

  Believe, Evil, Soul

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• Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

  Mark Kozelek

  Tired, Strings, Stills

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Age, Atoms

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rust, Sand

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• Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Giving, Input, Way

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• Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

  Robin Williams

  Green, Cotton, Taste

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

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• The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

  Trevanian

  Communication, Men, Two

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.255, Crown

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• I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, “I can get it for you, but would you rather—through how you live and what you wear and what you eat—ensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist?” That became such a checkstone for everything in life.

  Vandana Shiva

  Girl, Mother, Hands

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• I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.

  Roopal Patel

  Sports, Fashion, Shoes

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

  Gail Collins

  Appreciate, Feelings, Age

  "Collins: Letter to young American women" by Gail Collins, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2009.

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• New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

  Billie Holiday

  New Orleans, Cities, World

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• There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

  Julie Burchill

  Girl, War, Smart

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• If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Lazy, Lap

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.

  Mark Ronson

  Beautiful, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.

  Christopher Titus

  Fun, Responsibility, Exercise

  "Titus / Tommy's Girlfriend II". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

  Kate Spade

  Design, Firsts, Six

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• He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Flower, Thinking

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• Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

  Peter York

  Attitude, Class, Style

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• The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

  Jenny Eclair

  Holiday, Weather, Expectations

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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