90 Collar Quotes

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Famous Collar Quotes

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars. — Ralph Lauren

The wolf has a thick neck because he does his job on his own. — Bulgarian Proverbs

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - Ben Jonson

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. — Ben Jonson

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. — Michael Parenti

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail. — Fran Lebowitz

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A turtleneck is about sophistication. — Dwyane Wade

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along. — Egyptian Proverbs

Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless, Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. — Johnny Rotten

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. — Steve Martin

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. — Mitch Hedberg

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. — Marlon Brando

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. — Chinese Proverbs

Short Collar Quotes

  • Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. — Charles Dickens
  • White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky
  • Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It’s now leveraged versus un-leveraged. — Naval Ravikant
  • Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham
  • My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy. — Lee Greenwood
  • The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky
  • I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves. — Busy Philipps
  • Zombies are the blue-collar monsters — George A. Romero
  • I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R. A. Salvatore
  • Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. — Sue Grafton

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White Collar Quotes

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. — Robert Reich

That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color. — Tina Fey

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. — Jean Shepherd

When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression. — C. Wright Mills

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat. — Waylon Jennings

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once. — Madeleine L'Engle

Blue Collar Quotes

The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept. — James David Vance

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. — George A. Romero

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader. — Serge Schmemann

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. — Gerry Cooney

I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American. — Donald Trump, Jr.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English. — Paul Walker

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? — Joan Blades

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. — Michelle Obama

I was raised in a very blue-collar family. — Jamie Moyer

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy. — Adam Carolla

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More Collar Quotes

Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence. — Dorothy Allison

Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix. — Stephan Pastis

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. — Cynthia Ozick

I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the crowning touch of bad boy hotness over the successful businessman, like whipped cream topping on a hot fudge brownie sundae. As my mother would say, only rogues and raiders had hair like that." (Eva about Gideon) — Sylvia Day

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. — Robert Benchley

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar? — Alan Ayckbourn

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking. — Mike Royko

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar. — Sergio Leone

I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more. — Aaron Feuerstein

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar. — Groucho Marx

There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically? — Jenna Black

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. — Kurt Vonnegut

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. — Bobby Fischer

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