Coat Quotes

393 quotes by 339 authors

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? — Clara Barton
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat. — Albert Brooks
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,… — Charlie Chaplin
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients… — Tracy Chapman
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for… — Hillary Clinton
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for… — Dorothy Allison
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax… — Harold Wilson
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put… — Ernest Hemingway
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat… — James F. Cooper
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out! — Al McGuire
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate… — Charles Dudley Warner
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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