Slipcovered Quotes

#1. What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

Mimi Sheraton

#2. Most people wear clothing that is too big or too small for them. And "oversized" is the downfall for most of us. We have to be careful that we don't look like we're slipcovered!

Tim Gunn

#3. The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.
So ... this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

J.R. Ward

#4. I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

Donald Trump

#5. No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Hu Shih

#6. I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Andrew Lang

#7. I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

Jim Cramer

#8. We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Trust only him who doubts.

Lu Xun

#10. Something-now-or-more-later economic decisions while in a brain scanner.

David Eagleman

#11. My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

Ted Shackelford

#12. My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

Lucy Deakins

#13. Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

W.B.Yeats

#14. It was simply a matter of asking him to remove the tie from his head before he made love to her.

Nicki Elson

#15. The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

H.L. Mencken

#16. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

Ron Carlson