Cynthia Lewis
Author
"Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down."
Zippers quotes
Zippers
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult."
Patti Smith
Musician
"A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper."
Peter Scott
Artist
"Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed."
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"There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid."
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"The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.""
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"I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!"
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"The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty."
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"Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own."
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