Quotes About Durability

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organisations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

From what I've seen of Darren Till, he's very durable. He likes to throw that left hand so he has a chance to knock people out.

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

My shoes are so tough, I give them a beating every day and they never complain. -Johnny The Walker

Gold is valuable because of its naturally occurring properties: it's scarce, durable, portable, divisible, fungible, hard to counterfeit, and easy to authenticate

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

I think the durability of the sedan as well as its worldwide appeal argues well for it as a concept that resonates with people's ideas about how their lives are oriented. They understand the difference between an area for powertrain, an area for people, and an area for their stuff.

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

I'd worn the same Carhartts and hoodies for years, and only bought clothes when the ones I had tore too many holes.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans.

Old families last not three oaks.

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

The one garment in the world with the greatest and longest popularity—over a century now—is Levi's denim blue jeans. Along with their practical durability, they show age honestly and elegantly, as successive washings fade and shrink them to perfect fit and rich texture. Ingenious techniques to simulate aging of denim come and go, but the basic indigo 501s, copper-riveted, carry on for decades. This is highly evolved design. Are there blue-jeans buildings among us?

Besides, it's great to buy something you know you can use the rest of your life, then pass on to your grandkids, and that when those kids are old, it'll still be doing its job well. How many things are there like that left in life? Maybe good movies.