Wingtips Quotes

#1. My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips.

Thom Browne

#2. All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.

Beryl Markham

#3. Perfectly coiffed, every seam pressed, and just the right break of the trousers over his freshly polished wingtips. But it's the tilt of his head and the purpose in his stride that makes him look like he belongs.

LeAnne Burnett Morse

#4. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

Janet Turpin Myers

#5. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Langston Hughes

#6. To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

Zhuge Liang

#7. My personal feeling is that oral sex is against nature.

Pat Robertson

#8. I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Calvin Klein

#9. It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more.

Abraham Verghese

#11. Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?

John Irving

#12. Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Carl Linnaeus