Best Straw Hats Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Steve Sabol

“Year's end still in straw hat and sandals”

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Author:Matsuo Basho

“It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.”

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Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“Always buy your straw hats in the Winter”

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Author:Benjamin Graham

“You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.”

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Author:Billy Wilder

“Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.”

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Author:Desi Arnaz

“It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.”

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Author:William Shatner

“The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.”

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Author:Howard Rheingold

“When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.”

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Book:Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.”

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Author:Derek Landy

“Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law”

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Author:Eiichiro Oda

“The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.”

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

“I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.”

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Book:Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.”

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Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”

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Book:Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

Source: Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

“The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.”

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Book:Don't Throw in the Trowel

Source: Don't Throw in the Trowel

“You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.”

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Author:Alison Krauss