Suits Quotes - Page 32

• If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

  Wayne Coyne

  Kings, Suits You, Jogging

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• I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

  Hamish Bowles

  Years, Pieces, Firsts

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• John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wife, Naked, Poor

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• I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.

  Paul Neilan

  Hate, Thinking, Fruit

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• If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wrestling, Fighting, Men

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• I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.

  Cindy Crawford

  Afternoon, Scabs, Thighs

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• You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

  Bob Dylan

  Work Out, Skins, Spirit

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

  Phil Robertson

  Thinking, Boys, Watches

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beautiful, Thinking, Profound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

  Tim Gunn

  Lifestyle, Staples, Ifs

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Dark, Garden

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• A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, War, Advice

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1015, Library of America

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• [T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Government, Clothes

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1950). “1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786”

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• When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Growing Up, Dark, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Ice Cream, Law

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

  Charles Dickens

  Party, Mean, Men

  Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)

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• There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Smart, Race

  Robert Benchley (1946). “20,000 leagues under the sea: or, David Copperfield”

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• Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
  Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Contentment, Red

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.

  Francois Mauriac

  Writing, Creative, Should

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• Still, vicious or virtuous,
  Love suits most of us.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Vicious, Virtuous

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
  In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
  Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
  With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Morning, Fire

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• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  Stuart Chase

  Fashion, Animal, Men

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• What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

  Anthony Trollope

  Change, Men, Thinking

  'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 3

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

  Jack Kirby

  Real, Stereotype, Bigs

  John Morrow, Jack Kirby (2004). “Collected Jack Kirby Collector”, p.25, TwoMorrows Publishing

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