Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!
Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
Take off that darn fur coat!. . . Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.
Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.
I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me!
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?
. . . wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.
How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
In winter, some voices are like coats.