Gloves Quotes

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.