Quotes About Jackets

#1. No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn,
Your hands are cold but your lips are warm.

Mark Knopfler

#2. Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.

Stephen King

#3. Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.

Ryan Hurst

#4. I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.

Daniel Boulud

#5. On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

Dan Mathews

#6. Because books are alive. They are more alive than you and me. Books live forever. They live on in their own jackets. They live on in their reader's memory. They live on in their writer's minds.

Susan Shultz

#7. With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, jumpers and jackets, else how much time would be lost in dividing and conquering them?

Sarah Jane Stratford

#8. Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.

Andrew Dice Clay

#9. Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.

Thom Browne

#10. These include coats, suits, jackets, skirts, and dresses. My standard is this: hang any clothes that look like they would be happier hung up, such as those made with soft materials that flutter in the breeze or highly tailored cuts, which protest at being folded. These we should hang willingly.

Marie Kondo

#11. Layering is always a great way to look different and to keep your look younger. Basic tees, vest tops, jackets, leggings, shrugs, etc, can be mixed up to add spunk, variety and colour to your look. A good sense of mix 'n' match is required to make this look work.

Tena Desae

#12. For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ...

Ray Bradbury

#13. I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#14. There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

Demetri Martin

#15. I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

Jamie Waylett

#16. I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

Joe Biden

#17. I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

John Legend

#18. I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much ... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

Nicolas Berggruen

#19. I'm obsessed with jackets.

Domenico Dolce

#20. I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

A. J. Cook

#21. Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

Hilary Mantel

#22. I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.

Michael Kors

#23. I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical - jackets with woodstoves in them - to the sublime - images of nuns on waterslides.

Misha Collins

#24. I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

Alice Temperley

#25. I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

Jonathan Tropper

#26. I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

Jessi Colter

#27. Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.

Laura Ruby

#28. I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.

Melissa Ordway

#29. For instance: scorpions, vipers, and yellow jackets in paradise? How to accept gracefully the part of GOD that stings!

Alice Walker

#30. You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

Sam Lipsyte

#31. Of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree

Bernard Cornwell

#32. I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

Rachel Bilson

#33. ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#34. Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#35. I love my jackets and good tailoring. I love the designs and the colour.

John Boyega

#36. I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

John Krasinski

#37. Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound.

Kurt Vonnegut

#38. I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

Graham Coxon

#39. Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

Lois Lowry

#40. Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them

Bryce Courtenay

#41. You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses ... so few of which went into the magazines.

Charles James

#42. Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.

Sarah Kay

#43. It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

Nick Hanauer

#44. For me, what takes up most of the space in my closet are suits. I wear a lot of suits and jackets. But I think every man needs a black suit at home. You can never go wrong in a black suit. But in terms of style, I think it's about being comfortable in what you wear.

Henrik Lundqvist

#45. I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Lisa Kleypas

#46. emerge, I want to see them in full regatta - black leather jackets, sleeveless denim vests, boots and chains...LOTS of chains.

Bill Bernico

#47. But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were were moths in
embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery
sound--but at least they were honest

Marian Keyes

#48. Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Lamar Alexander

#49. A little bloodthirsty, isn't it? (Kim)
Given what they did to Tory, I'm thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron)
Well, let's just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#50. The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.

Cam Newton

#51. I put my hands into the pockets of all his jackets

Jonathan Safran Foer

#52. Tops (shirts, sweaters, etc.) Bottoms (pants, skirts, etc.) Clothes that should be hung (jackets, coats, suits, etc.) Socks Underwear Bags (handbags, messenger bags, etc.) Accessories

Marie Kondo

#53. So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.

Trinny Woodall

#54. I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

Antonia Fraser

#55. The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.

Helen Mirren

#56. Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.

Charlotte Rampling

#57. This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.

Luke Treadaway

#58. I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

Gillian Anderson

#59. I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#60. When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.

Aly Raisman

#61. So, fuck 'em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We're GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker's jackets.

Hal Duncan

#62. Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She'd taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

Kim Harrison

#63. Struggling with frozen expressions and tightly compressed lips. Everyone wore black padded jackets in a kind of mournful uniformity, and battled the same bladed wind that swept across the open spaces, their fists jammed into pockets, their heads resolutely down.

Gail Jones

#64. I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

J. Anthony Lukas

#65. Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Azar Nafisi

#66. For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

Oliver North

#67. I am a sucker for jackets!

Anna Torv

#68. In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

Jessica Helfand

#69. I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.

Chip Kidd

#70. Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

#71. This was more like it, a narrowed cluttered little shop stacked with books from floor to ceiling and four or five browsers taking their time- putting thumb marks on the new jackets. Nobody paid any attention to them.

Raymond Chandler

#72. Do you have some sort of issue with jackets?

Katie McGarry

#73. It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today's rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle." (Life Hacks, p.50

Jon Morrison

#74. The Beatles were no trouble ... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standing on the seats screaming, nothing broken.

Sid Bernstein

#75. I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

Tom Ford

#76. British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We've lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.

Tom Ford

#77. Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

Gail Carriger

#78. I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

Lykke Li

#79. I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh, fabulous jacket,' and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath!'

Mary-Kate Olsen

#80. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Gordon Liddy

#81. My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts and t-shirts, and I love leather jackets; it's pretty relaxed.

Jessica Springsteen

#82. I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.

Candice Accola

#83. Pulling a Houdini
Relationships are magic;
we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jackets
while locked in a steamer trunk underwater.

Beryl Dov

#84. If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

Nina Garcia

#85. When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

Tariq Ali

#86. My mum used to work for the Chanel store in Paris, so for me, I've always been very familiar with the brand because of her. I remember when I was very, very, little, our flat had Chanel shoe boxes, makeup, and some jackets.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#87. Spanish-language, and audio, and in deluxe hardcover editions featuring elegant silver-embossed jackets

E.L. James

#88. At 30-below, mushers will begin to put fleece jackets on their more sensitive dogs. Males are affixed with pile jockstraps, "peter heaters," to guard against frostbite.

John Balzar

#89. I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy.

Ashley Benson

#90. But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.

Gabrielle Zevin

#91. In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with empty sleeves pinned to the shoulder of their jackets, reminded me of the not-so-distant war.

Kati Marton

#92. Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

Karl Lagerfeld

#93. I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.

Chloe Thurlow

#94. What is it about men in dinner jackets?! Black tie makes even the most geeky bloke look gorgeous, and as for the already good-looking ones - well, it sends them into sex appeal overdrive, and they know it.

Rae Earl

#95. So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Bobby Orr

#96. Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.

Twiggy

#97. Kardashian Kollection for Lipsy will have some amazing standout pieces like a full-lace jumper and metallic sequin jackets.

Kourtney Kardashian

#98. Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Baltasar Gracian

#99. I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

Alexander Wang

#100. He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets
even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.

Gail Carriger