Lapels Quotes

#1. My bird has been replicated on belt buckles, embroidered into silk lapels, even tattooed in intimate places.

Suzanne Collins

#2. His account books reflect a concern with fashion, as shown by periodic visits to a French tailor, and his sartorial elegance is confirmed in portraits. In one painting, he wears a double-breasted coat with brass buttons and gilt-edged lapels, his neck swathed delicately in a ruffled lace jabot.

Ron Chernow

#3. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

#4. In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

Paul Weller

#5. Between the lapels of his subdued charcoal suit, he'd worn a silky red tie. A gold Rolex had circled his wrist, and an overblown blonde had been bonded on his side like a suction cup. The man clearly liked to accessorize.

Rachel Gibson

#6. I'm not afraid of you, Roarke."
"Aren't you?" He moved closer, curling his hands on the lapels of her shirt. "What do you think will happen if you step over the line?"
"Too much," she murmured.

J.D. Robb

#7. When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

Paul Simonon

#8. If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

David Walton

#9. The professional respect he maintained too often made her want to grab his lapels and kiss him, just to see how long it would take for him to thaw. No,

Marissa Meyer

#10. I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Aaron McGruder

#11. One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

Gilbert Gottfried

#12. Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

John Fowles

#13. I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

Tim Vine

#14. I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

Bill Bryson

#15. The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

Burt Reynolds

#16. I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about fashion - you know, the differences between lapels - and it wasn't until we'd wrapped that I really started getting into it.

Israel Broussard

#17. Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our collars and lapels.

Julie Otsuka

#18. She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, "I'm with you, kid.

Maya Angelou

#19. The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

James Scott Bell

#20. I whirled, and through the night drifting away like smoke on a wind, I found Rhysand straightening the lapels of his black jacket. "Hello, Feyre darling," he purred.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency.

Karen Hawkins

#22. George Lucas, go fuck yourself. I hope you're dead. I hope a fuckin' zombie busted in your house and knocked over your golden Yoda statue right onto your once creative head. These movies are terrible." An

Forbes West

#23. Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#24. An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.

Randy Alcorn

#25. After our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their ends, pages fanned out, sending little puffs of text into the air.

Eleanor Brown

#26. I feel relaxed now, I mean supernaturally relaxed, like I'm left out butter.

Jandy Nelson

#27. In All That You Do ... Keep Positive,Stay On The Roads That Bring You Forward In Life And Be Blessed!

Timothy Pina

#28. When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

Bob Iger

#29. Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

#30. I resist the urge to let my anxiety win
to let it take over what I love
to let it stop me from doing what I love
from loving myself.

Fida Islaih

#31. Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil ...

Ana Castillo

#32. There was no way a mass murderer would own a golden retriever.

Nicki Edwards

#33. Manners can make a very uncomfortable situation more tolerable.

Grace Lozada

#34. It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

William James

#35. Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

John Hutton

#36. On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Tom Ford