Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Brown

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

Brad Goreski

Everyone needs to have a denim shirt in your wardrobe. They work in the evening with a blazer or over your shoulder. They're great to pair with a pair of shorts - roll up the sleeves, unbutton it to show a peekaboo of your tank top.

Peter Eisenman

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.

Brunello Cucinelli

I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.

Craig Brown

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

Todd Snyder

If you are a shorter person it is important for the blazer not to look too big -- like you borrowed it from your dad.

Willie Geist

I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants.

Brian Orol

Rather, first sell the Blazer and then purchase a two- to three-year-old car.

Damon Stoudamire

What's crazy is that when I went from the court to the Blazer locker room, I cried. And I cried upstairs.

Eli Whitney

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Marla Shavin

Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.

Bob Livingston

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

Steve Lund

Welcome Back, Cotton. We're delighted. The Cotton is back, and it's better than ever.

J. G. Ballard

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

Percy Sledge

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

Hoss Johnson

We were going to play these games even if it was in a rice patty or a cotton field. If there is anything we can do when we are down there, we are going to do it.

Nate Berkus

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

Joseph Wise

Through informal discussions two or three months ago, I thought it was premature with all the work I was doing in Christina and it didn't feel right,

Peter Post

The reason why I think we see this increase, today it's a more informal world; we're a friendlier world, perhaps, and people like to feel I think a connection.

Neelie Kroes

We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them. We're not going to wait and do nothing.

John Calhoun

I think it is very important that we understand that these are informal discussions,

Mary Powell

Is there interest? Absolutely. Just from informal conversations we've had with people, there's a lot of interest in our project and Ellicottville in general.

Steve Brown

It's sort of an informal kind of prank the members have with one another.

Christopher Morley

Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are

Tom Kelly

There have been high-level, informal discussions over the last week, face-to-face discussions.

Cher

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.

Denis Leary

I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.

Gil Dufour

This season the sunglasses have silver trims and they are much smaller, with a mix of patent leather and silver trim.

Tom Julian

It was very Armani-like. The spectator-style accessories, modernized with leather and fabric, could become a true signature.

George Michael

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

Harrison Ford

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.

Hugh Laurie

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.

Nate Berkus

I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

Johan Lindeberg

I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Mike Rutherford

I'm completely hooked on polo.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Kristin Armstrong

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

Jane Asher

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Brandon Sanderson

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Brad Goreski

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

David Bowie

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Alicia Keys

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Joyce Grenfell

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.