Suits Quotes - Page 37

• All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

  Nina Bawden

  Liars, People, Tragedy

  Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Ideas

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

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• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Fitness, Feel Good, Body

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

  Cary Grant

  Father, Dignity, Used

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• Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

  Edith Head

  Home, Thinking, Needs

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• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

  Kin Hubbard

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Excellent, Circumstances

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• I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Believe, Clothes

  Interview with Mary Clarke, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

  Evel Knievel

  Mph, Pavement, Ripped

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  John Lydon

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

  Jim Morrison

  Real, Doors, Suits You

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

  Bill Murray

  Acting, Needs, Ninety

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

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• If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

  Alan Rickman

  House, Trampolines, Fine

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Crafts, Action

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

  Scott Weiland

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Quirky

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• If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Suits You, Clothes

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• As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

  Al Yankovic

  Doe, Stuff, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Should Have, Suits You, Special

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

  Brian Morton

  Suits Of Armor, Years, Joy

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Taken, Memorable, Fighting

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• Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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