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Quotes About Coat

It was Evan. He leaned against the door frame, his hands in his pockets. He was wearing distressed khakis, a white T-shirt, and a perfectly broken-in brown suede car coat. "Hey," he said. Holy Abercrombie catalog , Megan thought.
~ Kate Brian
and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
~ Herman Melville
The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.
~ Herman Melville
for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter, so a watch coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope or additional skin encasing you.
~ Herman Melville
Hajj Khaled looked up at the sky. He reached out for his yellow keffiyeh and wrapped it around his neck. He placed his coat in Hamama's saddlebag. He looked at his two companions, and in his olive-green eyes they saw a mysterious gleam. He smiled.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."
~ Dave Spikey
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
~ Gary Oldman
The fire was banked down to glowing coals, and the lamps were out. I went to the bed and drew aside the curtain. Sarkan was sleeping stretched across the bed still in his breeches and his loose shirt; he'd only thrown off his coat. I stood holding the curtain. He blinked awake at me unguarded for a moment, too startled to be indignant, as if he'd never imagined anyone could barge in on him. He looked so baffled I didn't want to shout at him anymore.
~ Naomi Novik
Discipline Makes the Glowing Coat of Awareness Unpalatable to the Predator.
~ Carlos Castaneda
A dozen deer stood in the pasture right across the fence. The big buck held his head proud and tall, antlers gathering snow as he watched over his harem. Isn't he majestic? She turned around so she could keep an eyes on him longer. Not as majestic as you look in that coat, he said. It's a work coat, for God's sake, Finn, and that's a horrible pickup line. Just stating facts.
~ Carolyn Brown
In fact, Eric said, as he went to the front door, I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it. He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood and tortoiseshell buttons.
~ Charlaine Harris
Very likely even his splendid coloration is a little too marked and would be objected to by those who put the laws of breeding above the value of personality, for it would appear that the classic pointer type should have a coat of one colour or at most with spots of a different one, but never stripes.
~ Thomas Mann
A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.
~ Thomas Sowell
What are you two doing in here?" Mike Iglehart wore an eye-blistering white lab coat and a surly expression. "This isn't some teenage make-out room." My face flushed scarlet. "Excuse me?" "We were using the computer!" Ben barked. "That's it.
~ Kathy Reichs
A day like a beautiful wild animal with a glossy coat and a mouth full of teeth.
~ Cameron Dokey
I am transfixed by that lemon yellow coat.
~ Suzanne Collins
I get a glimpse of the blond braid down her back. Then, as she yanks off her coat to cover a wailing child, I notice the duck tail formed by her untucked shirt. I have the same reaction I did the day Effie Trinket called her name at the reaping.
~ Suzanne Collins
I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Basically it's a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement. Right now it has convinced Pete that it is harmless, but I know better: just give them thumbs and in no time at all they'll have us working in the tuna mines, delivering cans from now until eternity. (Hey, wait a minute, doesn't this one have thumbs?)
~ Charles Stross
Bet you he's a smart sociopath, the kind that does well in midlevel management, all fur coat and no knickers—and willing to shed blood without a second thought if it's to defend his position.
~ Charles Stross
The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He'd have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum.
~ Tom Clancy
but the music, which he hoped would coat his nerve ends, only splayed them.
~ Toni Morrison
The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon.
~ George R.R. Martin
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
~ Joey Adams