#overcoat

Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprecedented business; but the clay pipe only wheezed and said nothing. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#business

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#enter #imagination #laboratory #leave #off

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. ↗

— William Tyndale

#alone #also #ask #dark #evening

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#before #body #death #here #i

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#argument #available #east #good #inevitable

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. ↗

— John Malkovich

#fifties #forties #hat #new #new york

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#always #corner #exhausting #him #life

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#guts #his #other #out #overcoat