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Quotes About Plaid

The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism major, I guessed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
~ Don Lemon
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
On bottom... Fellows studied the blue and green Mackenzie plaid kilt laid out across his bed. He'd worn it before, at Christmas at Kilmorgan, feeling strange with wool wrapping his hips, air circulating his thighs. Scotsmen had to be mad.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.
~ Scott Adams
I'm wearing a red-and-green plaid bow tie with a white button-down and a tartan skirt.
~ Jenny Han
Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.
~ Jen Lancaster
I was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.
~ Blackbear
The grunge thing was a little bit atrocious. 'Let's all put on plaid shirts and be as dirty as possible!'
~ Neve Campbell
I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.
~ Avicii
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
~ Lamar Alexander
Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.
~ Mary Gaitskill
What was done to the Highlanders after Culloden would forever be a dark stain on the English soul. Everything from the pipes to the plaids to the Gaelic language itself had been forbidden, obliterating an
~ C.S. Harris
Campbell plaid.
~ Kathleen Morgan
The two men sipped their drinks silently, allowing Alastair a moment more to assess his visitor. The MacGregor tartan had been his idea. He wanted no one to suspect what was afoot. His guest's face, however, was difficult to make out. Despite the fire's warmth, the man seemed reluctant to remove the plaid from his head and
~ Kathleen Morgan
I like my shirts. - It's plaid. - There are no rules for shirts. Plaid is good. - Plaid is bad. Although, if you went with a Scottish plaid in wool, it might be okay. - I'm not dressing like some damned highlander, Mercedes. - And the lumberjack look is okay? - You don't like my shirt?
~ Kathleen O'Reilly
Hey, Calloway." Reluctantly I turned back. "What?" "Save me a dance, will you?" I smiled sweetly. "Only if you wear one of those cute little plaid cummerbunds.
~ Cameron Dokey
McNab pranced in on plaid airboots
~ J.D. Robb
If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.
~ Johnny Carson
onto a bus with an eager group of American and British tourists decked out in plaid shorts and sun hats and made the fourteen-kilometer trip from the hotel, across the Nile River
~ James Patterson
Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.
~ Lemony Snicket
Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. She doted on changing hats at every opportunity. When she met the Prince, she was wearing one hat, when he asked her for a stroll, she excused herself, shortly to return wearing another, equally flattering.
~ William Goldman
I love a good plaid situation. A plaid blouse or shirt paired with jeans is a no-brainer outfit - it takes me back to grade school.
~ Emily Wickersham
The dictionary is correct. Although the condition takes different forms with different people, in my case an attack is usually triggered by strong emotion. For this reason I wear green plaid suits—I discovered years ago that green plaid has a soothing effect on me—and always try to remain calm. However, every now and then I must allow myself a hearty laugh, don't you agree? What is life without laughter?
~ Trenton Lee Stewart