Buttons Quote by Peter Carey

“She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the…

— Peter Carey

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the…

— Terence McKenna

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me…

— Adolphe Menjou

“It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take…

— John A. Macdonald

I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He…

— Charles Frazier

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would…

— Jack Irons

I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in…

— Alan Bennett

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your…

— Claude Bernard

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

— Bill Shankly

“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker,…

— Dick Cavett

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson…

— Martin Freeman