Worn Quotes - Page 5

• There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

  Karl Kraus

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
  But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Use, Spoons, Silver

  Stephen Vincent Benet, “American Names”

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silly, Thinking, People

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Looks, Hours, Courtship

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Jobs, Weekend, Giving

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• Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rays, Atoms

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• I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

  Whit Stillman

  College, Blue, Jeans

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• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  Gene Autry

  Strong, Uncles, Ambition

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• Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Risk, Nerves

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• I am a bit in love with a new designer George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Couple, Fun, Designer

  "5 Minutes With... Darby Stanchfield of 'Scandal'". Interview with Rebecca Petro, www.flare.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I have this old worn-out, skintight T-shirt that I love. That's sexy.

  Liz Vassey

  Sexy, T Shirt, Shirts

  "Liz Vassey: Analyze This". Interview with Elizabeth Sanchez, www.mensfitness.com.

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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• We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.

  Ken Kesey

  Sex, Moon, Sky

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• I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.

  Katie MacAlister

  Christian, Running, Grief

  Katie MacAlister (2008). “Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• I don't like karaoke because the mics are always so worn out. The quality of the mics is such that you're always going (screaming) "Yeah, yeah!" and then you can't like it. It's like sometimes I'm too professional to get up and do it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Quality, Karaoke, Sometimes

  "Rebel Wilson Interview, Pitch Perfect". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September, 2012.

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• To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

  George Schaller

  Memories, Rhythm Of Life, Imagination

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• Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Worn It, Effort, Ruts

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• It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, May, Faces

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• A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.

  David Letterman

  Thieves, Rubies, Wizards

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• I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.

  Emo Philips

  Son, Hands, Liberty

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• You might be a redneck if you've ever worn a dress that is strapless with a bra that isn't.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Dresses, Might

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• We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

  Werner Herzog

  Useless, Evolution, Exhausted

  "Making New Year's Resolutions with Werner Herzog". Interview with Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. December 31, 2014.

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• There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Believe, Fighting

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• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

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