Best Coattails Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.”

“You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.”

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Author:Catherine Keener

“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”

“Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.”

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Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.”

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Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972 he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.”

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Author:Ric Flair

“When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“Hillary [Clinton] wins in a landslide, [Donald] Trump has no coattails, the Democrats are gonna win the Senate, they're close to winning the House back, they're gonna keep the White House for three terms. It's gonna be nirvana.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?”

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Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.”

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Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.”

“I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.”

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Author:Alan Chambers

“I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion