Turtlenecks Quotes:

A turtleneck is about sophistication.

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Turtlenecks, Sophistication

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

- Peter Tork

topic: Vampire, Turtlenecks, Caught

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Here's Why Steve Jobs Wore A Black Turtleneck And Jeans Every Day" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

topic: Lasts, Enough, Turtlenecks

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Humor, Guy, Midget, Turtlenecks

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

- Johnny Depp

topic: White, Red, Taste, Red Lips, Collars

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

- Moon Unit Zappa

topic: Dad, Long, Black, Turtlenecks, Bathing Suits

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

- Doris Lilly

topic: Men, Turtles, Looks, Turtlenecks

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

- Jordan Sonnenblick

source: Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Eggplant, Turtlenecks

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Notebook, Growing Up, Artist, Beatnik, Turtlenecks

In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

- Emo Philips

source: Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

topic: College, Play, Black, Yay, Turtlenecks

I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.

- Tina Fey

topic: Two, Gaps, Adults, Turtlenecks

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

- John Green

topic: Girl, Fall, Book, Labyrinth Looking For Alaska, Looking For Alaska Book

You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Nice, Leather Jackets, Black, Turtlenecks

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

- Simon Helberg

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hey, Might, Tvs, Turtlenecks, Hope And Pray

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

- Peter Coyote

source: "Bay Area theater leaders on their inspirations" by Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. December 15, 2013.

topic: College, Sweaters, Black, Turtlenecks

I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than ***** spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

- Shailene Woodley

topic: Sexy, Long, Body, Spilling, Turtlenecks

The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Philosophical, Book, Hair, Turtlenecks, Prozac Nation

Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

- Kiran Desai

topic: Names, Black, World, Turtlenecks

I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

- Norman Foster

topic: Moving, Ties, People, Turtlenecks

I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.

- T.I.

source: "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

topic: Sweaters, Coats, Suits, Fur Coats, Turtlenecks

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

- Stacy London

topic: Years, Clothes, Personality, Turtlenecks

As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.

- Iman Abdulmajid

source: "Beauty After 40: 5 Mature Beauty Gurus Tell All". Interview with Veronique Vienne, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

topic: Girl, Long, Insecurity, Turtlenecks

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

- Steve Martin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Dog, Can Money Buy Happiness, Love And Money

I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

- Adrienne Bailon

topic: Christian, Thinking, Sick, Louboutins, Topshop

What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at me, and I put a hand to my mouth, face flaming. "Oh. My. God. Trent. I'm sorry" "Um" Trent said, clearly at a loss. "Call me tomorrow," Al said seriously, "I've got a curse that will take care of that. Unless you like the snake in a turtleneck look

- Kim Harrison

topic: Sorry, Loss, Hands, Circumcision, Turtlenecks

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

- Joshua Michael Stern

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Glasses, Turtlenecks, New Products

I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.

- Neil Patrick Harris

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Hipster, Littles, Olaf, Beatnik, Turtlenecks