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

• 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

• When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Times
  • Employers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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