Quotes About Coattails

#1. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

Alan Chambers

#3. I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Thomas Steinbeck

#4. The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

Ben Bernanke

#5. I turn a corner," I offered, "just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner. I can't see what that person looks like. All I can make out is a flash of white coattails. But the whiteness of the coattails is indelibly etched in my consciousness. Ever get that feeling?

Haruki Murakami

#6. When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.

Sung Kang

#7. Utilizing all of your mind is a step towards brilliance.
Utilizing all of your heart is a step towards excellence.
Utilizing all of your soul is a step towards nobleness.
Utilizing all of your mind, heart, and soul is a step towards greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

Nathan Fillion

#9. Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine."
Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.

James Ellroy

#10. At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

Aziz Ansari

#11. The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Otto Von Bismarck

#12. The men, who lumber around with Cowboys jerseys hanging past their coattails and their pants bagged around the heels of their boots, a fatal foreshortening of vertical line that makes them look like a bunch of hulking twelve-year-olds.

Ben Fountain

#13. As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#14. I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Ann Rinaldi

#15. Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.

April White

#16. Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

Heraklion Press

#17. Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.

Libba Bray

#18. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.

Gregory David Roberts

#19. Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.

Peggy Randall-Martin

#21. You don't need to be brave. You just need to do what needs done. - Vic Challenger

Jerry Gill

#22. The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events.

Carlo Rovelli

#23. In a flurry of sharp brocade coattails and gossamer gowns cut in the Neo-Baroque fashion, the crowd turns back to their conversations, the perfect epitome of what all Aristocrats are like - bored and quickly dissatisfied with the latest trends.

A.L. Davroe

#24. I would just like to be known as my own person. I don't need to ride on any coattails. I just want to make my mark myself.

Ali Lohan

#25. You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

Catherine Keener

#26. Knowing that all things happen in perfect order does not vaccinate us against pain and suffering. It simply makes us fully responsible for it.

Noah James Hittner

#27. Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

H.L. Mencken

#28. We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

Catherine Fahringer

#29. The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.

Aldous Huxley