Gloves Quotes - Page 3

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

He is an old glove, but he looked like the old Glove.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Do you know why they're called mok-gloves? Because they go up to your wrists(pal-mok).

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.