Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult. Votes: 6
The zipper opened all the way down our spines. Votes: 5
A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper. Votes: 5
Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down. Votes: 5
If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in. Votes: 5
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer Votes: 4
There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid. Votes: 4
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up. Votes: 4
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. Votes: 4
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? Votes: 4
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. Votes: 4
I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real. Votes: 4
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper. Votes: 4
The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned. Votes: 4
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time. Votes: 4
Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper. Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis. Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts. Votes: 4
I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling. Votes: 4
The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print. Votes: 3
So, we get into the first piece. Then, layer, layer, layer, do all of this. Then we jump into the trousers. Then I'm zip-tied in to this bottom piece and glued into the feet. So you can't get out. There is a zipper...somewhere. But it'll cost you money to find out where. And to actually make it functional, it's pretty ridiculous. So, I plan ahead. Votes: 3
Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector. Votes: 0