Sheets Quotes - Page 9

• Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Blow, Iron

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.70, Haymarket Books

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.

  Chris Rock

  Four, Bigs, Budgets

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• One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Hands, Rolling, Needs

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• The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, White, Snow

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.375

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• I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Nice, Luxury, Poor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

  John Kricfalusi

  Jobs, Editors, Voice

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Clouds, Tree

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2017). “The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries”, p.21, Parallax Press

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• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  Frank Iero

  Mean, Player, Practice

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• in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Home, Order, Anchors

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives--in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Clouds, Heaven

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• As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

  Sarah Silverman

  Summer, Kids, Smell

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

  Amory Lovins

  Men, Glasses, Cost

  "This much I know: Amory Lovins". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2008.

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• Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Soul, Intemperance

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt (p.115), 1890.

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• A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

  Orson Scott Card

  Needs, Fiction, Fantasy

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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• I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sleep

  "Rare Marilyn: a portfolio work by 20 photographers" by Jock Carroll, American Photo magazine, May - June 1997.

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• From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

  Alfred Austin

  Rain, Hazards, Sunny

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• We never had any silk sheets in our family...

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Our Family, Silk

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 96), 1975.

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• When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Book, Eye, Loss

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

  John O'Hara

  Typewriters, Yellow, Use

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• Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.

  Henry Martyn

  Pain, Memories, Simple

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