Top Hats Quotes

• I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

  Brian Selznick

  Mermaid, Dreamer, Tonight

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• Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fitness, Workout, Clothes

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• The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

  Justin Cronin

  Silly, Lakes, Hair

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.82, Dial Press

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• Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Blow, Rabbits, Chance

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• People increase their use of the term 'sir' when their angry. Little do they know, it only causes me to feel more like I'm wearing a top hat.

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Causes, Littles

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 20, 2011

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• Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

  Gary Reilly

  Rivers, Rabbits, Capes

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• Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

  Ryan Lochte

  President, My Favorite, All Time

  "Ryan Lochte's Favorite Pickup Line". Interview with Cassie Shortsleeve, www.menshealth.com. November 5, 2012.

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• It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

  Tove Jansson

  Ordinary, Looks, Said

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Finn Family Moomintroll”, p.31, Macmillan

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• As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

  Brian Selznick

  Mermaid, Dreamer, Clerks

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic

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• Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

  Natalie Angier

  Party, Eggs, Needs

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Smoking, Devil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.

  James R Newman

  Science, Fire, Water

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2051, Рипол Классик

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• Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

  Malcolm X

  Car, Dining, Massachusetts

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• On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.

  Sophie Blackall

  Hands, Mustache, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

  Jim Butcher

  Black, Creepy, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favour: The Dresden Files, Book Ten”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?'

  Fred Astaire

  Easter, Looks, Today

  American Classic Screen Magazine, September/October 1978.

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• You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Doctors, Class

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• Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.

  Tituss Burgess

  Hands, Light, Shining

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Sports, Taken, Years

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Halloween, Party

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• My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

  Christine Lakin

  Real, Night, Years

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• He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.

  Derek Landy

  Cowboy, Pie, Style

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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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• People think I was born in top hat and tails.

  Fred Astaire

  Thinking, People, Tails

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

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