Quotes About Wear

Robert has never been kind to his body; he's worn it like an old leather coat tossed in oceans and left crumpled in corners.

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

The rules didn't say whose clothes we had to wear," she whispered. "And it was the closest thing to you in that empty bed.

But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?

Well, she was right, as far as she knew. But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?

How grief and the passage of years can leave their mark. How the burden of duty can wear away the body's resilience. - Pg. 242

I'm falling into disrepair

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

It takes time for the habit of people to wear off of you

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.

If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

No need for you to think about something pink to wear or something blue or yellow. No use to think about soft colours. You might as well wear one kind as another. Drab. Brown. Faded dark old shrunk-up anything is good enough. Why don't you just give up and be ugly? That's what you are. Ugly. That's all.

I have my go-to products. It's hard not to come off very self-promoting, but the truth is, I don't make any product that I don't personally wear. In terms of things I can't live without, my Lock-It Foundation and my Featherweight Primer set the groundwork for my makeup.

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

Embarrassment, relentless, punitive scorn, can wear away at a soul until it recedes into wordless loneliness.

Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

That will be said because people think that heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear.

By the time I got home, the hat had flopped over my ears. It was a bit too big, I felt. "It's no tragedy. So long as it isn't too tight," said Mama, pulling the hat over my nose. "Just don't keep taking it off and putting it on. Don't touch it. Wear it well.