Quotes of Jacket - somelinesforyou

“ I'd rather go naked than wear fur. ”

- Christy Turlington

“ I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. ”

- Bram Stoker

“ Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt,... I refused to wear it. ”

- John Madden

“ And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said, 'Do you earn a living doing that?'. He said, 'Yes, this my livelihood'. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last. ”

- George Swinnock

“ My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. ”

- Jay London

“ When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. ”

- Veronica Webb

“ One sword keeps another in the sheath. ”

- George Herbert

“ Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I wear my heart on my sleeve. ”

- Princess Diana

“ A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains. ”

- Unknown

“ My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. ”

- William Tyndale

“ I am always looking for meaningful one night stands. ”

- Dudley Moore

“ I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. ”

- Bridget Hall

“ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ”

- Anthony Burgess

“ And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know? ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio

“ In poor plight, weary and travel-soiled, glad at heart, though possessing nothing but a shirt, leather trousers and an old hat, having lost my jacket, neck-kerchief and worn out my shoes. ”

- David Douglas

“ I still have a leather jacket my brother wore in the '60s. It doesn't fit me, but I figure maybe it'll fit my daughter. ”

- Andy Garcia

“ Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ”

- William Golding

“ A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.". ”

- Jake Johanson

“ A perfectly reasonable slab of chicken arrived coutured in garlands of watercress and crinolines of cilantro, but like Snow White was inevitably accompanied by a coterie of dwarfs-baby zucchini, baby carrots, tiny peas, small new potatoes in their jackets. ”

- Ellis Weiner

“ You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. ”

- David Herbert Lawrence

“ The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy-having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train peering over shoulders, bending down to attend simultaneously to a shoelace and a dust jacket, furtively changing seats. ”

- Nigel Andrew

“ I don't like your miserable, lonely single 'front name.' It is so limited, so meager. It has no versatility. It is weighted down with the sense of responsibility. It is worn threadbare with much use. It is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat… ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. ”

- Lou Holtz

“ The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country… ”

- Anthony Sampson

“ It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills. ”

- Paul Gray
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