Coat Quotes

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.