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The cat with gloves catches no mice. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Gloves make you so much more delicate. -- Karine Vanasse
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. -- Joseph Stalin
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. -- John Barrymore
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. -- Muhammad Ali
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
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. -- Jimmy Dean
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself. -- Lana Parrilla
I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me! -- Mike Modano
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. -- Kris Kristofferson
Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses. -- William Shakespeare
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck -- Charles Simic
Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No -- Kate Gosselin
Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side. -- Mike Schmidt
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden. -- Joe Frazier
Iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. -- Phyllis Diller
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. -- Hilarie Burton
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. -- Georges Didi-Huberman
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. -- Brenda Blethyn
When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove. -- Don Drysdale
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. -- Marvin Hagler
I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. -- Taylor Swift
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! -- William Shakespeare
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. -- Babe Ruth
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. -- Gene Tunney
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. -- Brooks Robinson
I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet. -- Chris Martin
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing. -- Adrian Grenier
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh. -- Rod Carew
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love. -- Katie McGrath
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit. -- Manolo Blahnik
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes. -- Bill Klem
I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be. -- John O. Brennan
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. -- Dennis Eckersley
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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession. -- Gerald McRaney
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. -- Stephen Colbert
Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves. -- Carine Roitfeld
I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. -- P. T. Barnum
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself. -- Athol Fugard
I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much. -- Raymond Burr
The cat in gloves catches no mice. -- Benjamin Franklin
War is capitalism with the gloves off. -- Tom Stoppard
I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves. -- Jim Watt
No revolution can be made with silk gloves. -- Joseph Stalin
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. -- Vladimir Lenin
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. -- Charles M. Schwab
When I make love I use protection. I wear rubber gloves. -- Jarod Kintz
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves. -- Tanc Sade
If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. -- Mark Rippetoe
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. -- Multatuli
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them. -- Helen McCloy
Do you know why they're called mok-gloves? Because they go up to your wrists(pal-mok). -- Onew
I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves. -- Rhona Mitra
I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up. -- Cornel Wilde
If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands. -- Henry Edward Armstrong
When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable. -- Scott Adams
With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate. -- Jim Drain
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves. -- Honore de Balzac
Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold. -- Vincent Tan
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. Itâ??s ever so bourgeois to have two. -- Libba Bray
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. -- Frank Miller
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. -- Theophile Gautier
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. -- Mickey Rourke
The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal. -- Imogen Heap
Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. -- Phyllis Diller
I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. -- Zach Braff
Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.... -- Anne Sexton
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions. -- Felix Baumgartner
I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good. -- Vladimir Guerrero
One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves. -- Jarod Kintz
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. -- Stephen Colbert
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant. -- Susana Martinez
I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K. -- Vincent Tan
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. -- W. P. Kinsella
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. -- Sherwood Smith
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future. -- Shayne Ward
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. -- Alan Keyes
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves. -- Grantland Rice
I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves. -- Meagan Good
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove. -- George R. R. Martin
I want to do something so hard so easily, and I want to do it with no hands. Only gloves. Love will fill the void. -- Jarod Kintz
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola -- Peter Piot
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
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently. -- John Edgar Wideman
My stylist chose the white gloves and I think she did a spectacular job....I couldn't believe the stir my gloves were making at the dinner. -- Maria Bartiromo
I always wear gloves, so at any moment I could commit a crime and not be worried about fingerprints. Plus, it saves on buying hand sanitizer. -- Jarod Kintz
My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult. -- Jeff Ross
The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details. -- Anton du Beke
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically -- Marlene Dietrich
I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic. -- Rachel Nichols
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age. -- Malcolm Cowley
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on. -- Brenda Ueland
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. -- Tom Stoppard
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments. -- Muhammad Ali
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something. -- Morgan Freeman
For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen. -- Steven R. McQueen
All these stipulations, I'm surprised [David Haye ] didn't ask me to carry him to that seat. The demands are unbelievable, my demands were let me pick my own gloves. -- Tony Bellew
I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.' -- Howie Mandel
Nick [ O'Leary] is a tough kid. He doesn't use gloves. It's freezing outside and he's obviously wearing short sleeves like all the other guys that let their "guns" stick out. -- Jack Nicklaus
The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red. -- Frank Crawford
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. -- William Ruckelshaus
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves. -- Jonathan Gottschall

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