Mackintoshes Quotes & Sayings

When I see you plodding along through the rain in dull, drab mackintoshes, with your noses tucked into your collars, I long to offer you a little advice. It is this: fight the weather with contrasts ... You must create an artificial sun to replace the one who has hidden himself. So why not a brighter note in your dress instead of the eternal grey, black, brown or navy? — Anna Pavlova

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it. — Cassandra Clare

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected. — Gary Johnson

The reputation of power IS power. — Thomas Hobbes

In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner. — Brandon Sanderson

The soap-box orators talked in the bitter cold at Marble Arch with their mackintoshes turned up around their Adam's apples, and all down the road the cad cars waited for the right easy girls, and the cheap prostitutes sat hopelessly in the shadows, and the blackmailers kept an eye open on the grass where the deeds of darkness were quietly and unsatisfactorily accomplished. — Graham Greene

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever. — Chip Esten

Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table. — Virginia Woolf