Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.
An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.
Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.
I took a step back. "Here. " He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn’t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn’t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.