Cuff Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to…
— Carter Burwell
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A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts,…
— Don Drysdale
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I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two…
— Jon Hamm
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My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of…
— John Waite
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
— Ben Hecht
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Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
— Davy Crockett
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Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem…
— Mark Crispin Miller
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I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of…
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at…
— Davy Crockett
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I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared;…
— Barbara Mertz
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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for…
— Gail Carriger
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Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as…
— Ellen Kushner
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If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
— Warren G. Bennis
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I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin.…
— Twiggy
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Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
— Roxane Gay
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Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and…
— Kennedy Fraser
Who Wrote These Cuff Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 33 Cuff Quotes, led by these top contributors: