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  • I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

    Wave   Coattails  
  • When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  • I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

    "Nathan Fillion is king of "Castle"". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.reuters.com. March 6, 2011.
  • When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

    Austin   Plot   Video  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

    Past   Trying   Tasks  
  • Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

    Funny   Running   Wisdom  
    The Sign Magazine, May 1938.
  • I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

    Believe   Gay   People  
  • As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

    "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
  • I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

    Father   Book   Writing  
  • Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

    Team   Reading   Home  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

    Art   Book   Thinking  
    Source: www.fargonebooks.com
  • We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

    Atheist   Science   Years  
  • You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

  • I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

    Games   Fans   Kevin  
    Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com
  • At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

    Successful   Men   Risk  
    "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation", 2009–2015.
  • But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

    Strong   Men   Thinking  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.16, Penguin
  • Hillary [Clinton] wins in a landslide, [Donald] Trump has no coattails, the Democrats are gonna win the Senate, they're close to winning the House back, they're gonna keep the White House for three terms. It's gonna be nirvana.

    Winning   White   House  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

    Men   Noses   Hanging On  
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