Trey Parker
Animator, Writer, Director
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?"
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Aristotle Onassis
Shipping magnate
"Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year."
John Burroughs
Naturalist, Writer
"O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best."
Peta Wilson
Model/Actress
"I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars."
Mackenzie Davis
Actress
"I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it."
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"You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat."
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"They don't make coats for this kind of cold"
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"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid."
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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
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"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
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"Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again."
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"Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?"
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"I had my coat hangers spayed."
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"Covering discretion with a coat of folly."
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"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
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"The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering."
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"Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes."
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"It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable."
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"There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week."
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"In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system."
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"Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint."
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"May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats."
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"Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war."
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"A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it."
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"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."
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