Gloves Quotes

• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Changes
  • Creature
  • Gloves

• There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying slips easily into the glove of the act itself. It is in character, ego-syntonic. It, the death, fits the person. It is a death that one might choose if it were realistically possible for one to choose one's own death.

  

  Edwin S. Shneidman
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Dying

• They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Business
  • Light
  • Evidence

• A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Problem
  • Office
  • Fit

• Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Brother
  • Should
  • Parent

• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Audience
  • Prove
  • Performances

• I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home.

  

  Ree Drummond
  • Country
  • Home
  • Cowboy

• Remembered how I was only a speck after all in uncomfortably limitless space, of no account whatever in the general scheme of things, but with a horrid private capacity for being often and easily hurt; and how specks have a trick of dying, which I in my turn would presently do, and a fresh speck, not nearly so nice, as I hoped and believed, would immediately start up and fill my vacancy, perhaps so exactly my vacancy that it would even wear my gloves and stockings.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Space
  • Hurt
  • Remembered

• Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Purpose
  • Teaches
  • Gloves

• She herself had certainly never been more alive. She felt electric. She would not have been surprised if sparks had come crackling out of the tips of her sober gloves.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Alive
  • Surprised
  • Electric

• I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

  

  Sugar Ray Leonard
  • Natural
  • Boxing
  • Gloves

• I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.

  

  Miguel Cabrera
  • Play
  • Gloves

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