Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.
As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.
Trouble travels fast When you're specially designed for crash testing Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.
For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.
the snow. . . came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it. . . they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.
I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.
This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.
Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter. " "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
