Battle Quote by Richard Hough

“Back to the cake. You were down to the seam of coal.” “Yeah, well, once they find the coal, they bring in more machines,…

— John Grisham

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

— Armand Hammer

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We…

— Sarah Dessen

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an…

— Lulu Wang

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

— Dodie Smith

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

— Rupert Everett

It was an era: before drying thesweat of the workers receive the wages they had to refrigerate it after sucking the blood of workers…

— Mak_786

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was…

— Katharine Hamnett

Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it,…

— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily…

— Max Cannon

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

— Plautus