Sock Quotes - Page 6

• After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

  Babe Ruth

  Advice, Asking, Answers

  "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball". Book by Babe Ruth, Chapter XIV, p. 199, 1928.

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• My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, "sock it away," and unsuccessful actors, it's just, "Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it and if you have to do it, keep you've got to keep your instrument in shape. You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.

  Stephen Lang

  Successful, Advice, Get Better

  "IN PLAIN SIGHT Scoop: Stephen Lang Talks Portraying Mary Shannon's Long-Lost Father". Interview with Tiffany Voght, www.thetvaddict.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Ran, Lad

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• My fashion was not the best in the '80s. I looked crazy as hell. I used to wear my pants tucked into my socks and karate handkerchiefs around my wrist. It was ridiculous, how I used to dress in the '80s.

  Deon Cole

  Fashion, Crazy, Dresses

  "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

  Matt Smith

  Pairs, Stealing, Photo Shoots

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

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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Sneakers, Feet, Joy

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

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• I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

  Teresa Palmer

  Girl, Kids, Littles

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Mother, Dream, Son

  Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

  Gordon Smith

  Player, Used, Changed

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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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• Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Lying, Calling

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Giving, Secret, Special

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

  Chuck Jones

  Artist, Shoes, Drawing

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• I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

  Mo Rocca

  Taken, Tennis, Balls

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• August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Travel, Kings

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• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nike, Blue, Knives

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.365, Penguin

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

  Neal Shusterman

  Nice, Thinking, Victory

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

  Monica Seles

  Color, Skins, Complaining

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• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

  Albert Einstein

  Fashion, Civilization, Boots

  In a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in "Einstein in no-sock shock", New Scientist, July 15, 2006.

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