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Quotes About Polyester

Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.
~ Issey Miyake
What happened December 12?" Polyester asks. I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted. He hit me." The bug slides to the floor.
~ Alex Flinn
The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
~ Rainn Wilson
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
~ Lea Thompson
Four other old folk emerged one by one to join their brother. All five siblings wore cheap polyester clothes, and standing in a group they looked very much alike. They differed only in their heights, like the fingers of a single hand.
~ Yu Hua
At ShirtJunky You will get unique, 1 of-a-kind Shirt product, It printed exclusively for the customer who ordered it. Our Shirt Products are exclusive and 100% soft polyester.
~ Jennifer
I have my suits especially made in 50 per cent polyester. That way when I'm going to a gig I can just stuff them in a bag, whip them out and they don't looked creased when I'm on stage.
~ Sean Lock
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
~ Patti Smith
Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.
~ Daniel Dumile
You would give John Travolta a run for his money. (Tory) Yeah, and I'm sorry about my clothes. I tried, but I just couldn't bring myself to wear that. Hell, I couldn't do the disco look even when it was popular. I swear I'm allergic to polyester. Thank God for the punk movement. Otherwise I'd have been naked for a decade. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
~ John Nichols
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
~ Tab Hunter
I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
Polyester, one of the most common fibers, is a plastic derived from crude oil. The long fibers that make up polyester thread are woven together to make fabric. Extracting the oil and melting the plastic require energy.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
You're in serious trouble, Bosch. You get it?" "Yeah, I get it. Thanks for the tip. I got one for you, too. Go back to the leisure suit you used to wear before you became Irving's bendover. You know, the yellow thing that matched your teeth. The polyester does more for you than the silk. In fact, one of the guys out there in the bullpen mentioned that the ass end of that suit is getting shiny, all the work you do riding a desk.
~ Michael Connelly
Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.
~ Jay R. Ferguson
Mike's Tuxedo Rental was a bolt-hole of polyester knockoffs sandwiched between a Dunkin' Donuts on the corner and a local flower shop on the other side. As Anne parallel-parked across the street from it, she checked the clock on her dash and was relieved they had an hour before the shop closed at five.
~ J.R. Ward
I always wanted to create clothing that was universal - easy to wear, to care for, and that was also beautiful. As such, I became interested in polyester, and its potential, from the beginning of my career.
~ Issey Miyake
I've always thought that because of all the polyester we humans encased ourselves in back in the 1970s, if a nuclear bomb had ever gone off, we might not have died but we would have definitely all been laminated.
~ Paul Feig
Elegance and simplicity . . . plastic, including polyester resin, which has several attractions: permanence (indoors), an aura of difficulty and technical expertise, and preciousness . . . rivaling bronze or marble. . . . in short, the aroma of Los Angeles in the sixties — newness, postcard sunset color, and intimations oif aerospace profundity.
~ Peter Plagens
He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from, he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.
~ Joe Hill
Grass: I've invested heavily in blood futures. I have a direct line to the trading floor for polyester blood. There's a heaving mass of men crying out their bids. The blood arrives at the warehouse in the form of double-knit suits. It's the only kind of suit I wear. When I collapse in the street, paramedics rush me to the hospital, liquefy the suit and inject it in my veins.
~ Don DeLillo
From what I hear, if we're going down to the well—the cistern—we're gonna want to burn the clothes afterwards," Del said. "I'd rather burn a polyester shirt than a two-thousand-dollar Italian suit. Or three-thousand-dollar Romanian shoes." "British shoes. And when you're right, you're right.
~ John Sandford
Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
~ Fran Lebowitz