Otto Graham
Football Player
"Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face."
Towels quotes
Towels
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place."
Kerry King
Musician
"I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me."
Lincoln Peirce
Cartoonist
"Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers."
Eloisa James
Author
"There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel."
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"So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format."
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."
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"I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much."
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