Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike American Novelist More John Updike Quotes 4
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. Charles de Gaulle Leader More Charles de Gaulle Quotes 1
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. Nicolas Malebranche French Philosopher More Nicolas Malebranche Quotes 0
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb? Trey Parker American Artist More Trey Parker Quotes 0
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. Anna Quindlen American Journalist More Anna Quindlen Quotes 0
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow American Lawyer More Clarence Darrow Quotes 0
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
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 me. Dorothy Allison American Writer More Dorothy Allison Quotes 0
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? Clara Barton American Public Servant More Clara Barton Quotes 0
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, the hat small and the shoes large. Charlie Chaplin English Actor More Charlie Chaplin Quotes 0
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 and put bandages on them. Tracy Chapman American Musician More Tracy Chapman Quotes 0
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. Ludwig Bemelmans Austrian Author More Ludwig Bemelmans Quotes 0
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? Robert Benchley American Comedian More Robert Benchley Quotes 0
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 a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. James F. Cooper American Novelist More James F. Cooper Quotes 0
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Charles Dickens English Novelist More Charles Dickens Quotes 0
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. Lexa Doig Canadian Actress More Lexa Doig Quotes 0
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. Esther Dyson American Scientist More Esther Dyson Quotes 0
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. Esther Dyson American Scientist More Esther Dyson Quotes 0
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. Benjamin Harrison American President More Benjamin Harrison Quotes 0
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys. Mary C. Jones More Mary C. Jones Quotes 0
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on. Robert Jay Lifton American Psychologist More Robert Jay Lifton Quotes 0
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 0
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 0
You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold. Lennart Nilsson Swedish Photographer More Lennart Nilsson Quotes 0