Quotes About Collars

#1. Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

Stephan Pastis

#2. I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Mary Quant

#3. No flirting, wicked girl. I know I'm your type." "I can't help it," she said. "I spread for Roman collars. What

Tiffany Reisz

#4. You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

Sarah Dessen

#5. men in high collars who might - this

Peter Carey

#6. I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

Ted Cruz

#7. Nick, space. Now. (Acheron)
Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian's number on it. 'In case of loss, call my owner.' (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

Fanny Fern

#9. Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

Patricia Highsmith

#10. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

#11. They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.

Markus Zusak

#12. Yes. And they promptly chewed the collars off. But even if the raptors never get free," Arnold said, "I think we have to accept that Jurassic Park is inherently hazardous." "Oh balls, " Hammond said.

Anonymous

#13. I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves ... only about you.

Jean Shepherd

#14. I didn't get here based on lineage, Travis. I'm here because I work hard. The only thing that's blue in my family lineage are the collars. The blood is just red.

Maisey Yates

#15. I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.

Jane Wagner

#16. I've seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and worms but salamanders and wild-eyed frogs. (The "free-range vegetarian hens" testimony on an egg-carton label is perjury, unless someone's trained them with little shock collars.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with ... collars, neck collars.

Ralph Lauren

#18. This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. Prep clothes are sensible: rain clothes keep you dry; winter clothes keep you warm; collars are buttoned down so they don't flap in your face when you're playing polo. Layering is a natural response to varying weather conditions.

Lisa Birnbach

#20. That's the funny thing about these collars ... Most men put them on women they plan to regularly fuck the shit out of."
His lips twitched. "I put them on women who get off on having me fuck the shit out of them however, wherever and whenever I want."
... "But you think that isn't me.

Kit Rocha

#21. Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

Mike Carey

#22. I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bobby Fischer

#23. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Florynce Kennedy

#24. But there's something more important we need to discuss: What is it with you and disco? I can understand the '70s TV because everyone loves hairy people with huge collars. But disco? Disco!?

Andy Weir

#25. I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

Anton Du Beke

#26. 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

#27. You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

John Burns

#28. Melanthe eyed him. "If all the good immortals still have their collars, why don't you?" "The better question: How could you possibly have retained yours?

Kresley Cole

#29. I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

Joan Caulfield

#30. I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

Busy Philipps

#31. Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much.

Tom Douglas

#32. Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Jack London

#33. I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.

Joe Queenan

#34. Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

Ozwald Boateng

#35. At night your thoughts have an unpleasant way of slipping their collars and running free.

Stephen King

#36. [Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

Herbert Hoover

#37. If this were the fifties, she'd be checking Sam's collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)

Charlaine Harris

#38. That was the plan?
part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved.
it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

Michele Jaffe

#39. Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

Connie Francis

#40. Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

Kurt Vonnegut

#41. Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

Robert Jordan

#42. The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Christian Bale