Necktie Quotes

#1. Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

LZ Granderson

#2. Let's play Russian roulette. If you win, I give you a Colombian necktie.

Natalya Vorobyova

#3. A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

John French Sloan

#4. Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

Galen Beckett

#5. My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Nigel Barker

#6. I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Gloria Steinem

#7. People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

#8. I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Ted Williams

#9. I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Susan Orlean

#10. Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

A.E. Housman

#11. When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one.

Marc Rainer

#12. Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic
nothing but an industrial accident.

Alfred Doblin

#13. The memory was unpleasant; he'd taken an instant disliking to the man. Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.

Justin Cronin

#14. Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.

Richard M. Weaver

#15. Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#16. Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora. He kept his custom eye wear on and made himself comfortable, looking more like a Wall Street accountant than the cold killer he'd become ...

Peprah Boasiako

#17. Women are like necktie she's smother the man, but she make him stylish

Khaled Naili

#18. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang

#19. The precision metallic ratcheting sound a Glock 9mm makes when a bullet is forced out of the gun's clip into the killing chamber is a universal sound that good guys and bad guys and wild animals alike understand on a primal level. - The Devil's Necktie

John Lansing

#20. The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

Philip K. Dick

#21. I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Harold Ramis

#22. I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Charles Bukowski

#23. The truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. It was a pretty convincing

Barack Obama

#24. Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Richard Corliss

#25. This time, I know all of his tricks: dimples, divots, smiles, and cute eye-crinkle things. Bring it on.

Anne Eliot

#26. As I age, I realize that now is yesterday's later, and that later is a bad plan.

Stephen Guise

#27. To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#28. When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Kristan Higgins

#29. When a man is anxious he cannot pray with faith; when he is troubled about the world, he cannot serve his Master, his thoughts are serving himself.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

#31. So, I may not be an expert on fathers, but I know that anyone who makes you feel less than worthy, especially someone who I believe is supposed to love and protect you, is not worth your effort.

Anna Hackett

#32. Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

Jackie Chan

#33. What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain De Botton