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We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. -- John Malkovich
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. -- Wilson Mizner
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. -- James Russell Lowell
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. -- Charles Peguy
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. -- Claude Bernard
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school. -- Charles Frazier
She carries chaos like an overcoat. -- Ann Aguirre
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. -- Peter Carey
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. -- Carl Sandburg
Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat. -- Bill Shankly
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen. -- John A. Macdonald
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. -- William Tyndale
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats. -- James Thurber
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. -- Jack Irons
If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered. -- Sherwood Anderson
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable. -- Terence McKenna
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat. -- Steve Sabol
Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual. -- Martin Freeman
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat. -- Alan Bennett
Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. -- James Joyce
I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them. -- Chad Stahelski
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off. -- Glenn Hoddle
My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. -- William Tyndale
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle. -- Harry Houdini
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in. -- Bill Shankly
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat -- James Russell Lowell

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