Sleeves Quotes
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Sometimes, though, angels smoke-in their sleeves. But when the archangel goes by, they throw their cigarettes away: This is what falling stars are.
— Vladimir Nabokov
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
— Moliere
Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.
— Ashton Kutcher
I was busy counting the cut of his abs and had just reached six when he pulled it down over my head and then tugged my arms into the sleeves.
— Rochelle Paige
It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves, in their hair.
— Gillian Flynn
If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.
— Alistair Begg
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
— Bruce Springsteen
If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.
— George P. Shultz
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
— Thomas Carlyle
Nails on skin, teeth on lips, and hearts on sleeves, we tumble over the edge, together.
— J.A. DeRouen
Crying into the sleeves of his plaid flannel shirt like the world's saddest lumberjack.
— Rainbow Rowell
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
— Moon Unit Zappa
We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
— Pauline Marois
John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve
— Ray Parlour
Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
— Mary Jo Salter
If you want success, roll your sleeves up and fight for it!
— Arlene Brown
Lena slipped her silk sleeves into the jacket I held for her, smoothed it over her person, and buttoned it slowly.
— Willa Cather
Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!
— Avijeet Das
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
— Patricia Heaton
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
— Annie Dillard
First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.
— Anne Lamott
I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.
— Harriet Doerr
The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force. — Lao-Tzu
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force. — Lao-Tzu
I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
— Kat Graham
Fennel licked her sleeves with his paper tongue and wagged his tail so fiercely she feared it would fly off his rump and land in the icebox.
— Charlie N. Holmberg
I don't have sleeves to carry handkerchiefs in,' said Damen. 'I wouldn't mind being given a knife.' 'Or a fork?' said Laurent.
— C.S. Pacat
Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
— Jennifer Echols
I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.
— Jeaniene Frost
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
— Joseph O'Neill
their heart on their sleeves
— William Frost
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
— Bill Nighy
We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve,
— Christine O'Donnell
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
— Alan Bennett
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
— N. T. Wright
Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.
— John Corwin
I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
— Brian Regan
I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No sleeves . . . no problem
— Paul Garvey
the sleeves of my chocolate-scented T-shirt.
— Carole Matthews
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.
— Zachary Koukol
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
— Walt Whitman
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
Passionate people don't wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts." The
— Adam M. Grant
I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.
— Jordin Sparks
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
— Roberto Azevedo
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
— George Herbert
The moon is alone, and so am I;
My sleeves are wet with tears. — Rosamund Hodge
My sleeves are wet with tears. — Rosamund Hodge
I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Branches of spiraea bowed under sleeves of blossom, and delphinium shoots nudged the soil. With the
— Rachel Joyce
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
— Sam Ewing
It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
— Carolina Herrera
Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.
— James Rollins
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
— Andre Benjamin
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
— Ani DiFranco
Don't be afraid to show your feelings. Wear your heart on your sleeves. The right one will see
— Rita Zahara
I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
— Werner Herzog
I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played!
— Cliff Bleszinski
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
— Steven Pressfield
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
— Patricia Schroeder
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
— George Herbert
You can tell a man's character by what he turns up when offered a job - his nose or his sleeves.
— Suzanne Woods Fisher
I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.
— Dreama Walker
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Instead he stood erect, the snow insinuating itself down his collar and up his sleeves, plastering against his face and into his unblinking eyes.
— Louise Penny
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
— Taraji P. Henson
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
— Joseph R. McCarthy
I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.
— Busy Philipps