Best Nylon Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.”

World United Attitude Class Millions Middle Style Originals Institutions Conservative London Officials Middle Class Pounds Bonus Rangers Cafes Homogeneous Upper Middle Class Nylon

Author:Peter York

“I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.”

Believe Soul Evil I Believe Devil Harder Workers My Soul Faster Misogyny Evil Women Nylon

Author:Big Joe Turner

“We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!”

Men Giving Said Hands Minutes Arms Fine Give Me Moved Coffee Fishing Strings Mechanism Fifteen Props Rigged Strings Attached Nylon

Author:Irvin Kershner

“New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!”

Thinking Feels Fashion Flower Dresses Followers Dedicated Pants Soup Palaces Waiter Dior Buckingham Palace Nylon

Author:Ray Davies

“I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.”

Firsts Made Shows Design Six Trade Finished Apartment Unnoticed Sample Handbags Satin Nylon

Author:Kate Spade

“When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.”

Men Two Communication Mountain Messages Flow Currents Protection Senses Psychological Subtle Disposition Extensions Connecting Rope Wire Transmit Tactile Nylon

Book:The Eiger Sanction: A Novel

Source: The Eiger Sanction: A Novel

“I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.”

Kind Bigs Today Wanted Sports Deals Fashion Shoes Bags Big Deal Accessories Craze Prada Nylon

Author:Roopal Patel

“I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, I can get it for you, but would you ratherthrough how you live and what you wear and what you eatensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist? That became such a checkstone for everything in life.”

Way Years Said I Can Hands Mother Girl Six Connections Dresses Profit My Birthday Six Year Olds Weavers Deep Connections Nylon

Author:Vandana Shiva

“So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.”

Knows Should Wells Kind Ideas Play Beautiful Song Black Written Guitar Strings Crude Acoustics Amy Well Written Demos Nylon

Author:Mark Ronson

“Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.”

Stills Tired Strings Nylon

Author:Mark Kozelek

“If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?”

Ifs Want Lines Stage Guitar Lazy Strings Steel Lap Nylon

Author:Steve Young

“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”

Turns Taste Green Cooks Strings Closest Beans Cotton Nylon Green Beans Okra

Author:Robin Williams

“I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.”

Sand Rust Nylon

Author:Charles Bukowski

“There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.”

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Author:Julie Burchill

“Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.”

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Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.”

Ifs Has Beens Feelings Age Tough Appreciate Coming Of Age Doomed Elders 1960s Skirts Stockings Girdles Nylon

Author:Gail Collins

“Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.”

Way Giving Film Natural Influence Give Me Input Love Films Nylon

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.”

Firsts Kind Form Enjoy Guitar Guts Strings Nylon Guitar Strings

Author:Guy Clark

“I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”

Religion Church Bags Kneeling Nylon

Author:Billy Wilder

“The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.”

Way Levels Goes On Expectations Weather Holiday Convince Sheets Nylon

Author:Jenny Eclair

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