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Quotes About Uniform

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
~ Pat Conroy
But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.
~ Thomas Keneally
I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.
~ Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.
~ Lee Child, Never Go Back
Caía la lluvia como cae tantas veces en la despejada Madrid, uniforme y cansinamente y sin viento que la sobresalte, como si supiera que va a durar días y no tuviera furia ni prisa.
~ Javier Marías
My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don't know who my brother. In war I don't know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.
~ Edna O'Brien
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
~ William Falconer
I am in Cleveland, I do wear No. 2, and I do wear Kyrie's. That's gonna be linked together. I just got to take it.
~ Collin Sexton
Any colour - so long as it's black.
~ Henry Ford
Later . . . the sports jacket became a kind of signature uniform for the museum scientist, complete with leather elbow patches. It indicated an endearing otherworldliness. Too much smartness might betray the wrong priorities, and an inadequate grasp of carabids.
~ Richard Fortey
Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe
~ Kelley Armstrong
Ooh, big day in town for our park warden," I said. "They're even making you wear the uniform. Hayley's mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it." Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom's laugh floated out from her studio. "Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.
~ Kelley Armstrong
She is called The Only Answer, because she only ever gives the same answer, no matter your question.
~ Kelly Link
They looked impressively military, in
~ Ken Follett
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour.
~ Xenophon
The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).
~ Laurence Silberman
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
~ Jean Cocteau
On the trains, a uniform seldom represents what it purports to represent.
~ Jeanine Cummins
and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
~ Alfred Jarry
Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savile Row as to the quite dazzling sartorial perfection of his khaki drill, was so magnificently out of place in the wild beauty of the rocky, tree-lined bluffs of that winding creek that his presence there seemed inevitable.
~ Alistair MacLean
The only reason I ever put on a chef's coat is because it's mandatory in a kitchen. I mean, why would anyone want to wear an uncomfortable double-breasted jacket when you could be in a T-shirt?
~ Alton Brown
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
~ Tom Clancy
It's been an honor to wear our nation's uniform.
~ Lee Zeldin