Dave Barry Quotes

I spend much of my time in a suit and tie with my top button done up and my sensible shoes neatly polished. When it comes to work, my appearance is about communicating professionalism and confidence.

As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.

I no longer need my power tie, because I always have, my power finger.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

I hate wearing suits and ties.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

I've worn a suit and tie for most of my life. And I believe (for me), it makes me more confident navigating the world.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

Just because the office is casual doesn't mean you shouldn't make an effort.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s when men were required to wear a suit, shirt, and tie every day to be taken seriously. I was at the tail end of that generation, and it had a significant impact on me.

Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.

I've never been big on sports coats and pants. I'm a suit guy. It makes it clear who's in charge.

Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up.

I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

You can take on the world in a good suit.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?