Jackets Quotes

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.

I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.

Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

I always buy the same things. I have about a million sweaters and a million jackets, so I'm sure I'll get some more of that.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.