Top 100 Collar Quotes
#1. Dan gave chase with his big, blue-collar hands grasping at my shirttail.
Bobby Adair
#2. Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
Gerry Cooney
#3. The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Tom Peters
#4. I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.
Joe Mantegna
#5. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul
Mahmoud Darwish
#6. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.
Elle Lothlorien
#7. Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.
Robert Breault
#8. One lone tear streaked over the rose of her cheek and dropped to her collar, staining the cotton dark. Helen
Kelly Robson
#9. We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar jobs of tomorrow. But it will only happen if we recognize the scale and scope of both the challenge and the opportunity.
Jay Inslee
#10. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#11. a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.
Jack London
#12. And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar.
Sarah Waters
#13. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.
Van Jones
#15. His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns
#16. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Thomas Carlyle
#17. In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
Mahmoud Darwish
#18. America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
Troy Polamalu
#19. Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.
Michael Ashcroft
#20. My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.
Jakaya Kikwete
#21. A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
Jesse Ventura
#22. Damn skippy it's a flea collar. I'm not taking no chances.
Janet Evanovich
#23. The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
David Lee Roth
#24. I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
Matt Bomer
#25. Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.
Carole Lombard
#26. I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
Wes Craven
#27. I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever ... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
Matthew Quick
#28. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!
Mick Lexington
#29. Anna looked at Brother Wolf. 'I'd like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
Patricia Briggs
#30. Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall
#31. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#32. Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.
Kevin O'Leary
#33. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#34. I was raised in a very blue-collar family.
Jamie Moyer
#35. There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#36. Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George
#37. I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.
Donald Trump Jr.
#38. It's the thought that counts. And don't forget that pretty collar he got you with the little bell that - hey, there's no call for hissing.
Suzanne Wright
#39. God, you're uptight. Did the aliens maybe forget to remove your anal probe?
Cherise Sinclair
#40. Yes, Dad collared me before I was even born. Nevertheless, he made me the one in authority of the collar and myself.
Jazz Feylynn
#41. For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.
Matt Bomer
#42. In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
Howard Schultz
#43. Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.
Mozzie White Collar
#44. Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.
John Betjeman
#45. I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.
Crystal Bowersox
#46. white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time.
Joseph Hilldorfer
#47. Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos ...
George Pataki
#48. As Hurston herself noted, "Roll your eyes in ecstasy and ape his every move, but until we have placed something upon his street corner that is our own, we are right back where we were when they filed our iron collar off.
Zora Neale Hurston
#49. She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.
Virginia Woolf
#50. Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
Bill Watterson
#51. Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess ... responsiveness.
Cherise Sinclair
#52. I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.
-Lord Vetinari
Terry Pratchett
#53. I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'
Willie Garson
#54. When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.
J.K. Rowling
#55. To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
Michael Jai White
#56. You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.
Charles Stross
#57. It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
Natsuo Kirino
#58. 'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Michael Imperioli
#59. What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?
Michel Faber
#60. It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
Liz Phair
#61. There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.
Troy Polamalu
#62. As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
Steve Earle
#63. I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?
Zooey Deschanel
#64. Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham
#65. She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you."
It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.
Joe Abercrombie
#66. The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time.
Gregory Maguire
#67. My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.
Ne-Yo
#68. There was nothing to deflate a man's ego like a bit of frill around the collar.
Susan Dennard
#69. I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer ... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
Joe Piscopo
#70. You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar
Groucho Marx
#71. As she hung in the seat, Bart stepped back and raked her with a molten gaze. "I imagine you," he said, "with your collar undone. With your habit shirt unbuttoned and your hair unpinned." She swallowed. "That is a lot of undoing.
Theresa Romain
#72. I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
Johnny Depp
#73. An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
William McFee
#74. Hey, come on!" Kail pushed into the hallway and saw an ascetic-looking man whose lapitect robes had some little stars on the collar. "We're trying to work, here! Do I go down to where your mother works and push the sailors out of her bed?
Patrick Weekes
#75. But we are engaged in a bitter and eternal war with small things; chiefly with microbes and with collar studs.
G.K. Chesterton
#76. He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up with a pie in the puss, the whipped cream wilting his upturned collar as everyone in the cafeteria cheers.
Gillian Flynn
#77. I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
Larry Bird
#78. I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.
Sylvester Stallone
#79. Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena's recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times - on her knees wearing only a collar and a leash.
S.B. Redd
#80. The collar represented something of big importance to her. He knew she saw it as losing who she was. He saw it as her trusting him enough to let him be in charge.
Starla Kaye
#81. I've got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time - otherwise I'm going to look like I'm in 'Bugsy Malone.'
Jamie Cullum
#82. The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
Preet Bharara
#83. For God's sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog's collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense.
Sophie Kinsella
#84. I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
Paul Walker
#85. He smirked and that was it. I propelled myself forward and into his arms, our mouths instantly locking in a frenzied kiss, my hands grasping his collar, his shirt, his hair, his anything.
Jennifer DeLucy
#86. Nah. I'm a consultant, of course. Everyone's favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.
Richelle Mead
#87. I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
Graydon Carter
#88. Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.
Dennis Vickers
#89. You and your brother have had moments. Don'tcha think the collar's a bit much?" I could imagine Jessie hogtied with whatever was at hand by his big bad sis.
Jazz Feylynn
#90. Maybe Leland would appear there by chance in the morning his chin freshly shaved against his stiff new collar and upon seeing his love in such duress would spring into action. Maybe he would even carry her out like a princess in a bedtime story.
Anna Godbersen
#91. I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people ... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.
Hilda Solis
#92. I don't think that white collar gives you sole right of access to the divine.
Joanne Harris
#93. Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out
Joe Hill
#94. When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.
Irin Carmon
#95. What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
Steven Erikson
#96. I couldn't do anything because his lips were the perfect collar, keeping me leashed tight and trembling. First,
Pepper Winters
#97. Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#98. Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.
"I can hear you!
Ilona Andrews
#99. A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master's need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy.
Cherise Sinclair
#100. We shall have to stay the night here,' he said, as if preparing to spend the night at an inn, and he proceeded to unfasten the collar-straps. The buckles came undone.
'But shan't we be frozen?' remarked Vasili Andreevich.
'Well, if we are we can't help it.' said Nikita.
Leo Tolstoy
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