The purpose of clothing, as best he could tell, was to keep one unembarrassed and at the right temperature. If an outfit served that purpose for a respectable period—twenty years, say—and at the lowest price available, then it was successful.


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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fa...
TOM HICKS
There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ...
TOM HOLLAND
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd b...
TOM SEAVER
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
TOM PETERS
The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
TOM COUGHLIN
You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my cale...
KIANA TOM
Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t...
TOM HIDDLESTON
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
TOM DASCHLE
Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
TOM WAITS
There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and...
TOM HOLLAND
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
TOM LEHRER
Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while the...
TOM FRIEDEN
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling...
TOM HARDY
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl ...
TOM STOPPARD
My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don&#...
TOM HIDDLESTON
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
TOM COBURN
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But ...
TOM SELLECK
I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, ...
TOM SIZEMORE
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die...
TOM DELONGE
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
TOM BROKAW
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...
TOM WAITS
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...
TOM WAITS
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-perce...
TOM SHALES
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou...
TOM ALLEN
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, ...
TOM MORELLO
There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD