“If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.” IfsLongStillsHairMouthsRoundsWorriedPantsExposureArrestedAnklesIndecent Exposure Author:Michael J. Fox
“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.” LittlesLongMatterHardOrderGirlNaturalBoysGrowing UpGrowingHairBaseballMalesCertaintyPantsLittle BoysSkirtsOnce Upon A TimeLong HairNatural OrderAbsolute CertaintyShort Hair Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.” IfsWayFirstsWellsDoneBitsTakenHeardHairHorrorFirst TimeGolfJournalismJournalistPairsPantsRecallsVagueBicyclePeeking Author:H. L. Mencken
“If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!” IfsLooksCausesWalksHalfWonderCrazyLike YouHairArmsOfficePicksShoesNecksPantsTattooUp And Down Book:Mayor: The Best Job in Politics Source: Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
“In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.” Love IsFrontsHairBottomShouldersShirtsLengthPantsBellsSeventiesBeads Author:Tom Ford
“Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.” KnowsMenWellsChildrenLightRunningSchoolEarthWaterSleepWalksBreakHairPaidCoffeeIceTeaDawnRisingIronBusVegetablesPantsTwilightSunriseCurvesRiceBlacknessStovesBraidsPoints Of LightBefore Sunrise Author:Adrienne Rich
“There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing that hair. Really putting some thought and effort behind it and it's astounding how terrible I used to make myself look. Still to this day I don't really know how to dress myself.” KnowsLooksStillsUsedEffortBehindsKnow HowFrontsSeriousHairTerribleMirrorsDressesShirtsThis DayPantsChecking Out Author:Rob Huebel
“Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.” ChildrenKidsWantedDealsHairClothesEverydayHatedShirtsPantsSailorCorduroy Author:Patti Smith
“He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.” YearsLooksAgeLastsUsedEvilChangedCollegeHairSummerModelsMalesUsed To BeShirtsVillainPantsButtonsT ShirtHarvardFashionableLeatherShowing OffShortsSandyUnrulyLast SummerLoafersBermuda Book:The Sea of Monsters Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.” HumansTwoSongFeetStyleHairGreenYesterdayPianoFakeApplesPocketsMetalsPantsOrangeDaddyHornsCapsPipeGoatsScrapReedsSnacksGroverGrover UnderwoodRastaCurly HairScrap Metal Book:The lightning thief Source: The lightning thief