Top 50 Sleeves Quotes

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

I’m really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it’s like, ‘No, I swear, I’m wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!’

I once wore a maroon leather dress with sleeves, which looked fabulous in real life but didn’t look great on TV. It was shiny, and it looked like something Pinky Tuscadero would wear.

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.

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

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

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.

I love coverage. My ideal dress would be a turtleneck that goes all the way up to my chin, and then sleeves that go past my fingers. And then the dress goes all the way to the floor, and you see the very tips of my toes.

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

All the clothes I got before my son was born; he can’t really wear them! Either you can’t wash them, or they’re too hard to get on and off – you know, so many baby clothes have sleeves that don’t let the baby’s arms go in and out. It’s ridiculous!

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I’m always assuming nothing’s going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

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.

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

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

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I’m not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, ‘You have to play it like this,’ or I tell the drummer, ‘It’s got to be like this.’

A man’s tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.

I love a good suit, and when I see photographs of myself in a jacket that doesn’t fit me quite right or the sleeves are too long, it drives me insane.

I’ve always been ambitious. I’ve always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

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 think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

My career is a burden, but I can’t just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I’m just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn’t part of the plan, initially. I’d be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

I am known to wear my heart on my sleeves.

I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn’t work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for ‘Overpowered,’ and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

The tech industry’s love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You’re expected to lead by example, to roll up your sleeves, to know everything going on.

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

I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat – and beaten well – and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

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.

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

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school – I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.

I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.

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.

Our public schools are an area where I will be rolling up my sleeves and spending a lot of my time, pushing for political will.

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!

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

Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

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.

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.

I didn’t lie that I read Vogue’ every day or that I grew up loving fashion, but I did know how to roll up my sleeves and do whatever it took to learn it.

At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom’s clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.

I had this maroon ‘Lion King’ tracksuit that my mum couldn’t take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

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.

If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they’re already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach out and start collaborating. But when it comes to the record sleeves and the tour posters, I’m usually quite particular.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

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

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realise you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

It’s going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.