Rose: "I was testing dorm security. It sucks. " Dimitri: "You must be freezing. Do you want my coat?" Rose: "I'm fine. What are you doing out here? Are you testing security too?" Dimitri: "I am security. This is my watch. " Rose: "Well, good work. I'm glad I was able to help test your awesome skills. " - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov (Shadow Kiss)
I'm here," she said, skidding to a stop. "Can we go now?" Sebastian insisted on helping her on with the coat. "I don't think anyone's ever helped me with my coat before," Clary observed, freeing the hair that had gotten trapped under her collar. "Well, maybe waiters. Were you ever a waiter?" "No, but I was brought up by a Frenchwoman," Sebastian reminded her. "It involves an even more rigorous course of training.
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence. '
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.
I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.
I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
I've got a sweater. " Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here. " "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm. " Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to. " "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.
I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.