Coats Quotes - Page 3

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.