Top 100 Uniform Quotes
#1. The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
George Steiner
#2. Straddling him intimately, he slides his hands up my thighs, pushing the silk aside and caressing my pale, exposed skin. Even against his uniform, I can feel his hardness. His body feels taut and poised for action.
Felicity Brandon
#3. We need to evolve a uniform law which does not leave room for any confusion and states that the minimum marriageable age for women is 18 years and that for men is 21 years. But the demand for this should come from within the community.
Girija Vyas
#4. The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
Willard Scott
#5. I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward.
Veronica Roth
#6. When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.
Mary Roach
#7. Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell
#8. The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission. And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.
Rocky Bleier
#9. A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.
Tucker Max
#10. Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform.
Jay Leno
#11. There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.
Seymour Papert
#12. The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#13. The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#14. In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
Wade Boggs
#15. While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.
Marc Veasey
#16. I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland
#17. I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
Tommy Lasorda
#18. I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.
Clemence Poesy
#19. I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.
Joe Slovo
#20. And, as always, thank you to our fighting men and women, those in uniform and those out of uniform. You protect our freedom and way of life so we all have the chance to live the American Dream.
Julie Ann Walker
#21. (He) feels (his) words reach him. They slide beneath his orange uniform and touch his bones.
Rachel Joyce
#22. I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I've made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.
Steve Garvey
#23. If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.
Ian Astbury
#24. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
#25. It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.
Jeff Cooper
#26. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
#27. I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.
Reggie Watts
#28. May I request a new uniform? A towel seems inappropriate for the position.
Marissa Meyer
#29. A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#30. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.
Francesca Zappia
#31. Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
Victor LaValle
#32. If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization.
Nomar Garciaparra
#33. hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
Lance Loud
#35. It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
Louis MacNeice
#36. Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
Bai Ling
#37. The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. Just so you know, Alice's nurse's uniform is a pair of green scrubs. She looks like Gumby.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#39. One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.
Tom Clancy
#40. Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.
Jennifer Echols
#41. Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
Tanya Huff
#42. Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.
Leo Durocher
#43. It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.
Misty Copeland
#45. We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.
Dick Durbin
#46. He disliked wearing his uniform and always changed out of it right away when he came home. Symbols of authority irritated him - unless the authority was his own.
Edith Hahn Beer
#47. You're all angles and elbows right now." I gave him a sour look. "You certainly know how to make a girl feel sexy."
He grinned. "Well, how about: If anyone can make an oversize polyester uniform look hot, it's you.
Diana Rowland
#48. . . . I love the school uniform. You have great legs."
"Shut up!" I gasped. "I thought you were an old man!"
"Old soul. Young man. Big difference. . .
Mary Lindsey
#49. I believed that, if I put a chocolate on the market that was better than anyone else was making, or was likely to make, and keep it absolutely uniform in quality, the time would come when the public would appreciate it and buy it.
Milton S. Hershey
#50. It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
Norman Spinrad
#51. Heath Ledger was on the little glowing screen in front of me in his nurse's uniform, smoky eyes, and smeared lipstick, smirking as he set off bombs and burned the hospital down.
Cat Marnell
#52. I pictured him in uniform. Let's just say the picture was ... nice.
Kim Harrington
#53. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
George Washington
#54. The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#55. Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
Karl Marx
#56. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Samuel Johnson
#57. Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago
#58. My sock cut off my circulation, my uniform sweater itched, and my underwear seemed to be staging some sort of revolt to make me as uncomfortable as possible.
And this were the good points of the day.
Jenny B. Jones
#59. One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
Honore De Balzac
#60. Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style, but a voice all their own.
Naveed Saleh
#61. More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
Steve Buyer
#62. In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.
Misty Copeland
#63. We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.
Isaac Yeffet
#64. Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.
Peter James West
#65. Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#66. Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.
Fredric Wertham
#67. I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#69. No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.
Ed Wood
#70. Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.
Lefty Grove
#71. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
Eric Shinseki
#72. The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!
Michael Braungart
#73. These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.
Tulsi Gabbard
#74. I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
Ryan Gosling
#75. As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Robin Hayes
#76. He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more.
Mike Milbury
#77. I was not the only young nurse to be acutely conscious of a heightened sex appeal when in uniform. Ironically, the draconian old sisters and matrons who rigidly enforced the uniform seemed to be unaware of the effect it had on the male sex.
Jennifer Worth
#78. Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.
Hugh Shelton
#79. We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.
Carl Furillo
#80. A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And
Gregory David Roberts
#81. A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.
Jim Bouton
#82. If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
Harriet Quimby
#83. In no way was I intending to say, nor have I ever thought, that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but courageous and valiant, and I offer my apologies to anyone who took it wrong.
Bill Maher
#84. Just because I live in the sunlight, enjoy being blond, and wear a cheerleading uniform, that doesn't mean I'm stupid. I'm so sick of that.
Kelly Creagh
#85. I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
Lou Doillon
#86. For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
Erwin Rommel
#87. At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the 'old days,' I don't want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It's a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.
Alison Bechdel
#88. I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz
#89. They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
Karl Malone
#90. I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
Eric Cantona
#91. You expecting a collapse, Gunny?" "The technical sergeant is repairing alien technology with a piece of torn uniform - I'm expected the Goddamned tunnel to blow up." "Ressk's helping." Mike's voice sounded muffled. "And that makes all the difference," Torin snorted.
Tanya Huff
#92. I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
Yvonne Strahovski
#93. I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.
Dave Winfield
#94. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge?
Terry Pratchett
#95. The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.
Maynard Owen Williams
#96. Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.
Barack Obama
#97. How easy it was to ignore a blackened heart if you dressed it in a pressed uniform and a reputation for honesty.
Brandon Sanderson
#98. I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. A naked man is, of course beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform - ah, then he is more than beautiful, then he is sexy!
Tom Of Finland
#99. Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.
Eric Davis
#100. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?
Michael Morpurgo
