Collar Quotes

199 Collar quotes by 177 unique authors

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what? — Zooey Deschanel
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions… — Christopher Lasch
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you… — Mike Royko
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation… — Lois Gibbs
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the… — Christine Gregoire
Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the… — Harry Markopolos
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is… — Dorothy Allison
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with… — Gerry Cooney
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me. — Kurt Bills
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R A Salvatore
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. — Sue Grafton
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an… — Cynthia Ozick
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe
Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all. — Ozwald Boateng
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's… — John Betjeman
I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just… — Adam Savage
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate,… — Daniel H. Pink
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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