#coat

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#august #being #coat #comes #damn

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#cats #coats #end #fur #going

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#bags #beaver #buffalo #chosen #coats

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? ↗

— Clara Barton

#coat #does #ever #his #hole

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#coat #dining #dress #evening #girl

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. ↗

— John Updike

#baby #coat #gold #like #longer

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#chase #coat #even #free #hell

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#cute #i #japanese #name #ritual

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#chickens #coats #course #dear #dogs