Top 66 Collar Quotes

I’ve met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can’t see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves… only about you.

I quite like walking out in my sweet new Balor Club jacket, popping my collar and being Mr. Cool.

Ewan was studying in London and he got this huge job in his final year, a part in Dennis Potter’s ‘Lipstick on Your Collar’ for Channel 4. He had no idea what happened on a TV set so I talked him through things.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even ‘Childish Prodigy,’ I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially ‘God Is Saying This to You,’ there’s such urgency in that album.

I’m not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

This idea of ‘New Collar’ says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, ‘New Collar’ not ‘Blue Collar,’ ‘White Collar.’ It’s ‘New Collar.’

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with… collars, neck collars.

I did not have a dog with a diamond collar. I was never flashy.

People buy a cat and think, ‘Oh that’s a beautiful collar. I’ll put that on,’ but that doesn’t make them a responsible pet owner.

Here in America, money is something everyone can have, and because Trump poured cement with blue collars when he was a young man, he knows the vernacular; he speaks that language. In fact, he was probably much more comfortable with them than he is with the aristocrats, who are his financial peers.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cardigan too, but a jacket – especially one with sharp shoulders, interesting buttons, or a unique collar – always looks the most fashion-forward.

I signed a dog collar. Someone gave me their dog – a live dog – and I signed its collar. When they handed me the dog, I didn’t know what to do. That was weird.

You’ve got two sets of teenagers in England – the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar.

I’ve come to learn it’s a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.

I’ll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer… on my mom’s side, all my uncles were engineers – all ten of them.

I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, ‘I’ll deal with you.’

I pretty much figure a collar will do, but as time goes on, I’m hoping I learn how to throw a suit on or something. I’ve still got some time. I’m not the president of the United States yet.

I don’t like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of ‘White Collar.’

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

‘White Collar’ is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

When ‘Blue Collar TV’ was on the ‘WB,’ we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn’t know what to do with us. They had ‘Reba,’ which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn’t want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.

I come from blue collar. I’m very working class.

I’ve been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

I like to turn up my collar when I’m leaving the theatre and feel like I’m some heroic comedian figure.

Conservatives like to talk about ‘the strivers’ who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum’s jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.

The key to transforming your look with a collar is ensuring that it looks as if it’s part of the dress, so there shouldn’t be any skin visible underneath.

With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club… one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications – added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar – and the bunny was born.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn’t work for me at all.

I’m blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.

I can’t go to sleep on a train anymore because people take photos of me. You know, dribbling. It’s a bit embarrassing. I go to sleep with my collar up.

I’m the first rapper ever popping his collar.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

As much as I’d like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that’s who comes to see me.

I’ve got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time – otherwise I’m going to look like I’m in ‘Bugsy Malone.’

When I talk about rock n’ roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then – a different world.

Relax, Georgie, I’m just making my collar and cuffs match.

Ohio suffered, like a lot of Midwestern states, under the weight of trade deals that really diminished a lot of good-paying manufacturing jobs; a lot of the blue collar workers in the state are suffering, just like many of their counterparts across the country. I’m not terribly surprised that Mr. Trump won Ohio.

I’m very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It’s much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

I’ve never wrestled Kylie Rae, I’ve never wrestled Nyla Rose. I’m more familiar with Kylie Rae, I know her, she was my room-mate in Japan. I was in the match where she broke her collar bone in Japan, I was her tag partner.

I was brought up in a slightly older style. I don’t play with my collar up.

I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

I’m louder and bigger with my curls. There’s power in that. Also, straight hair is kind of annoying. It gets caught in my collar.

Never wear a button-down collared shirt with a double-breasted suit. The more formal double-breasted suit looks best with the more formal spread or long-point collar.

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That’s not very sexy.

I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me.

Why doesn’t Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that’s where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it’s the key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world’s biggest problems.

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on ‘White Collar’ over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.