Coat Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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