Turtlenecks Quotes

• Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

  Johnny Depp

  White, Red, Taste

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• A turtleneck is about sophistication.

  Dwyane Wade

  Sophistication

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• My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Dad, Long, Black

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• Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

  Doris Lilly

  Men, Turtles, Looks

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• Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Eggplant, Style, Chicks

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

  Charles de Lint

  Notebook, Growing Up, Artist

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• In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

  Emo Philips

  College, Play, Black

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.

  Tina Fey

  Two, Adults, Gaps

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• Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

  Peter Tork

  Vampire, Caught

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• We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Girl, Book, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

  Daniel Tosh

  Nice, Leather Jackets, Black

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• I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

  Simon Helberg

  Tvs, Hey, Might

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

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• When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

  Peter Coyote

  College, Sweaters, Black

  "Bay Area theater leaders on their inspirations" by Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. December 15, 2013.

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• I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

  Shailene Woodley

  Sexy, Long, Dresses

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 07, 2010.

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• The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Book, Hair

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• Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

  Kiran Desai

  Names, Black, Employment

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Lasts, Enough

  "Here's Why Steve Jobs Wore A Black Turtleneck And Jeans Every Day" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

  Norman Foster

  Moving, Ties, People

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• I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.

  T.I.

  Sweaters, Coats, Suits

  "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

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• If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

  Stacy London

  Years, Clothes, Personality

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• As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Girl, Long, Insecurity

  "Beauty After 40: 5 Mature Beauty Gurus Tell All". Interview with Veronique Vienne, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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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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• I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

  Adrienne Bailon

  Christian, Thinking, Sick

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• When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Alaska

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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