Quotes About Hosiery

#1. My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Sunil Mittal

#2. I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Barbara Castle

#3. [D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic epidemiologist and a floorwalker in men's hosiery-look at how those size l0-to-13's drape over their tiny 2-shaped hangers...

Evan Dara

#4. I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Sunil Mittal

#5. I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

Sara Blakely

#6. Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

Sara Blakely

#7. Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Sandro Veronesi

#8. I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.

Sara Blakely

#9. Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.

John Dryden

#10. I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

Andrew Rosenthal

#11. Do you think it's right for Christians to use the names of pagan gods for the days of the week?

Garrison Keillor

#12. Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Audrey Hepburn

#14. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart scent that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds shaped like true-love hearts.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. You can't possibly be right for everything.

Bridget Regan

#16. There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

Edith Schaeffer