Top 217 Sleeves Quotes & Sayings

You've got to play with passion and spirit and I will always roll up my sleeves and give it a good go.

Rarely will you find a photo of me in the NFL without long sleeves.

I am known to wear my heart on my sleeves.

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

I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

I always have the same problem when I try to buy something straight off the rack: If I put on a medium, it's perfectly fitted in the torso, but the sleeves are too short. If it's a large, the sleeves are long enough, but it's too baggy. So made-to-measure suits are especially important for me because I'm 6'2'' and so skinny.

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves.

A Brooks Brothers button-down with an unfastened collar, rolled-up sleeves, and jeans makes for a comfortable, casual look.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

When a new hire is afraid to roll up their sleeves and get things done, it's a clear sign it's not going to work out.

I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.

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

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

You do a movie, depending on the character, there's some degree of makeup involved, especially when you're playing a vampire and you're all white and kind of dead. Sleeves, regarding costumes, there are generally sleeves, which I appreciate. I think we all do.

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.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

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

I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

I'm just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work!

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

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.

Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

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.

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

When I first went onstage I even had a suit jacket on with the sleeves rolled up because that's what I saw on TV or at the Improv that everybody did.

I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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

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.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, and I cannot wait to roll up my sleeves and get back to work.

With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.

I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I've had.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

I have many pairs of long gloves because my wrists get cold as I also like coats with short sleeves - what Jackie O would have called bracelet-length sleeves.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

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

I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played!