Sleeves Quotes

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Work, Character, Hard

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

Work, Language, Goes

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, Buildings, Shake

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen

Work, Hard, Living

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Bono

Strong, Real, Dream

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.
Jordin Sparks

Wear, Cover, Arms

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
Taraji P. Henson

Sadness, Deep, Human

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
Steven Tyler

Cool, Black, Put

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh

Life, Death, Saying

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
Bill Nighy

Seriously, Disabled, Jacket

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.
Busy Philipps

Love, Puff, Pan

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
Bob Beauprez

Work, Government, Job

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
Patricia Heaton

Men, Trying, Hearts

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
Bryan Ferry

Art, Writing, Career

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
Moon Unit Zappa

Dad, Long, Black

I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
Jessica Brown Findlay

Heart, Done, Country

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
Pauline Marois

Success, Work, Beautiful

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
Joseph R. McCarthy

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu

Women, Fight, Together

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
Andre Benjamin

Football, Old, Pictures

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
Queen Rania of Jordan

Change, Important, Leaving

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
Dierks Bentley

Life, Good, Live

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.
Colin Cooper

Successful, Become, Kids

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
George Porter

Life, Happiness, Science

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
Walter F. Ulmer

Good, Around, Screwing

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