Belts Are Quotes

#1. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

Mary McCarthy

#2. I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.

Bindi Irwin

#3. I smiled into the air the way I smiled when customers unbuckled their belts, and I made my eyes laugh as if everything were some version of a good time.

Miranda July

#4. Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

John Podhoretz

#5. You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

Dave Barry

#6. What kind of belt do you have?

Ralph Macchio

#7. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken

#8. When it comes to belts and rank, I don't care what belt I am; I don't care what rank I am. I'm proud that I've achieved high ranks through some great instructors around the world, but ultimately, the mat doesn't lie.

Jason David Frank

#9. A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

James Wolcott

#10. The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment

Wallace Stevens

#11. I still can't unsee Tommy's outfit: nighttime sunglasses, a dark blazer as loose and baggy as rain gear, sand-colored cargo pants with pockets filled to capacity (was he smuggling potatoes?), a white tank top, clunky Frankenstein combat boots, and two belts. Yes, two belts.

Greg Sestero

#12. A belt don't make me.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#13. I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

Russell Crowe

#14. My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

Heidi Klum

#15. I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

Kendall Schmidt

#16. A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.

Lennox Lewis

#18. I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.

Janel Parrish

#19. The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#20. I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

Don Rickles

#21. The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.

Jim Butcher

#22. People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

Gene Spafford

#23. After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming.

Chris Matakas

#24. Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

Michael Rooker

#25. When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#26. The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn't had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

Tom Brady

#28. We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.

Anna Quindlen

#29. Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I'm Zach and I'll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows
but, obviously, don't because Ruby just told you not to
you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.

Alexandra Bracken

#30. The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly.

Tom Franklin

#31. Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

Evan Bayh

#32. Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

Janeane Garofalo

#33. Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.

Marsha Blackburn

#34. Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.

Ben Quayle

#35. A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes.

Olivia Palermo

#36. Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know.

Kazushi Sakuraba

#37. Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

Glenn Dean

#38. After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.

Ronald D. Moore

#39. I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

Manuel Moroun

#40. People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

Bryant McGill

#41. Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.

Steven Brust

#42. Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find his will beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyper-space ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.

Douglas Adams

#43. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

P. J. O'Rourke

#44. Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kristen Stewart

#45. History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

John Piper

#46. He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

#47. He'd say "I love you" to every man in the squad before rolling out, say it straight, with no joking or smart-ass lilt and no warbly Christian smarm in it either, just that brisk declaration like he was tightening the seat belts around everyone's soul.

Ben Fountain

#48. Nobody was hurt, thank God, because both drivers were wearing seat belts. Thank God, thank God.

Kurt Vonnegut

#49. The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

Billy Joe Saunders

#50. It is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

Maureen Dowd

#51. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed.

Philip K. Dick

#52. Belts are only good for holding up your pants

Bruce Lee

#53. The chariot lurched and bumped. It had no seat belts and the back was wide open, so Piper wondered if Jason would catch her again if she fell.

Rick Riordan

#54. Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

#55. Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

Sebastian Pinera

#56. I see a badge on four belts. I'd like it explained why he's here," Debbie demanded, eyeing up Cal.
"Mostly 'cause there's nothin' on TV," Cal replied, Debbie's eyes narrowed and Merry chuckled.

Kristen Ashley

#57. Microsoft is still not a black belt

Ken Kutaragi

#58. Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved?

Marilyn Monroe

#59. Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

Twiggy

#60. We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car ... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Gerald McRaney

#61. I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.

Stacey King

#62. I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought ... I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses ... I am using so many high curved belts.

Oscar De La Renta

#63. West cowboy gun belts. When a man's wearing one - naturally - a woman knows he can handle himself.

Nora Roberts

#64. I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

Heather Morris

#65. For the briefest of moments his eyes sparkled before dimming again. However much I would love to get into a discussion about chastity belts, now is not the time. The people we were fighting were not human in the strictest sense of the word.

Michelle Smart

#66. When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

Karen Bass

#67. Fashion is that horrid little man with an evil eye who tells you that your last winter's coat may be in perfect physical condition, but you can't wear it. You can't wear it because it has a belt and this year 'we are not showing belts.

Elizabeth Hawes

#68. The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Marshall McLuhan

#69. Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

Nancy Gibbs

#70. I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.

Samaire Armstrong

#71. It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.

Brittany Snow

#72. Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.

Kelly Cutrone

#73. Giselle Speakmon's parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won't be any cribs for me either, Dad, because I reckon they'll make me wear one of those chastity belts, knowin' Jas is my brother and all.

Kristen Ashley

#74. Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

John Salazar

#75. Don't worry, I'm shielding you. When we crashed here and it first attacked me, I was caught with my mental trousers down. Not anymore. Psychic force field's intact. Belts and braces. Braces, by the way, are very cool.

James Goss

#76. Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Adam Selzer

#77. If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

Lance Loud

#78. First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.

Donna Lynn Hope

#79. Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

GZA

#80. They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let's face it, they are a civilian's army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.

Kenneth Eade

#81. Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

Olivia Palermo

#82. As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

Pete Sessions

#83. There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Tiger Woods

#84. It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

Kelly Brook

#85. Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

Rush Limbaugh

#86. The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I'm really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.

Ronda Rousey