Starched Quotes

#1. Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Enoch Powell

#2. a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.

Jack London

#3. I was born not to die but to live and never born.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

Lee Pace

#5. Few places are more charming than a quiet cocktail lounge in the middle of the day with the ice tinkling in the glasses and the starched look of a bartender's white shirt and the clarity of the beer in the glass with the bubbles drifting up.

Robert B. Parker

#6. Starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins.

Donna Tartt

#7. I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

Mike Watkins

#8. Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Budd Schulberg

#9. We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

Pope Francis

#10. I'm a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!

George Carlin

#11. Ten neatly coiffed female attendants stand against the walls, ready and waiting. Wearing starched yellow blouses with pink crossover ties neatly folded under the collar, they look as much a part of the ship's decoration as the sparkling crystal chandeliers that hang overhead.

Gretchen Powell

#12. She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.

P.D. James

#13. The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

John Wesley

#14. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

John Brunner

#15. To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.

Lily James

#16. I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

Janet Evanovich

#17. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

Jay Johnstone

#18. She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see ...

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Frantz Fanon

#20. Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.

Charlie Siem

#21. I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#22. Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Stanley Hauerwas

#23. Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

Adam Ferrara

#24. 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

#25. [My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Linda Ellerbee

#26. The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.

Sarah Addison Allen

#27. All fair in love and bonus round

David Charters

#28. Every atom of Markus melted into intense pleasure. And at the center of this ecstatic realm, his heart leapt with joy throughout his entire body.

David Foenkinos

#29. Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Denise Levertov

#30. If I wasn't Maryse ... I would want to be.

Maryse Ouellet

#31. Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Roger Rosenblatt

#32. I'll be washed and ironed. I'll be washed and ironed and starched.

Sherwood Anderson

#33. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi

Eric Weiner

#34. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Maya Angelou

#35. So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

James Young