Top 1200 Worn Out Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That's what costs the most for any given flight.

We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.

My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

Christmas is a time of little time. How we get there is a mystery. Racing madly mall-to-mall, we climb Into fields of sunlit harmony. Shopping, cooking, clearing walks and yards, Trimming house and tree while working, too; Making phone calls, wrapping, writing cards, As all worn out we do what we must do So that this day of joy might joy renew.

'Ready' is dedicated to young people who are not yet jaded and worn down by the realities of this world.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.

The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

One dress I love - for me, it's a little edgy - it's sleeveless. It's black and it's leather. I've worn it on TV.

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

I would love to have a gadget that can be worn in high heel shoes, so that it doesn't hurt!

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

Except for two years in Stuttgart, I have always worn the FCB jersey.

I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.

God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have righteous testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of the contempt of their contemporaries. They are not here to get along. They are not even here to take issue. They are here to take over!

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.

I've never worn the same pair of shoes twice, ever. That's a fact.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

The Ballon d'Or presentation will be the first time I've ever worn black tie!

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

I haven't worn make-up since my wedding, and my husband loves me a lot.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

I have worn saris a lot over the years, so designing them was like a natural progression.

When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.