Quotes About Nylon

#1. An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow "Buchanan" sett used to make men's nylon Y-front underpants.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

Jenny Eclair

#3. Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim.

Marty Rubin

#4. He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

Ray Davies

#5. The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff.

Richard Schmitt

#6. All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

Guy Clark

#7. I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat,

Hugh Laurie

#8. It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#9. I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

Rivers Cuomo

#10. Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Robin Williams

#11. Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

Mark Kozelek

#12. Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#13. A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie

Sue Grafton

#14. I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

Charles Bukowski

#15. I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

Kate Spade

#16. I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

Big Joe Turner

#17. In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#18. New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

Billie Holiday

#19. The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

Trevanian

#20. I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her.

Stanley Gazemba

#21. People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

Colm Toibin

#22. Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

Bill Bryson

#23. He whose sin is due to desires, then have hope for him. And he whose sin is due to pride, then fear for him - because Nabi Adam disobeyed due to desire and was forgiven, and Iblis sinned due to pride and was cursed

Sufyan Ibn Uyaynah

#24. Pg 29 their brief relationship now strikes her as the most obvious mistake in the worl

Jennifer E. Smith

#25. Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Seth Godin

#26. If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.

Pankaj Mishra

#27. I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.

Roopal Patel

#28. She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Billy Joel

#29. The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

Jim Gaffigan

#30. They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife.

Lee Child

#31. Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Charles Stanley

#32. Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

Jonny Lee Miller

#33. The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

Laurie Graham

#34. Oi! Bad girl. Maybe I should have led with the fancy collar first." From his other back pocket, he brought forth a pink nylon collar with rhinestones stitched all around. Ooh. Pretty, shiny. Resist the bling. She looked away, and he laughed.

Eve Langlais

#35. No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

Russell Smith

#36. Joel arrived at Hemmant beach in a pair of white nylon shorts. He knew they'd be see-through once they were wet, and he deliberately didn't wear any underwear, because he wanted to be in the surf, practically naked, and have people looking at him.

Todd Young

#37. And in this case, the devil didn't wear Prada so much as she wore a pink nylon tracksuit, polka-dotted bifocals, and answered to the name Gigi.

Tracy Brogan

#38. He got a lovely pair of trainers given off his mum for Christmas, best pair he ever had, but it was the nylon laces that he couldn't take his eyes off. They found him hanging in his cell!

Stephen Richards

#39. I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

Ben Kingsley

#40. What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind.

Anna Kavan