Blanket Quotes - Page 7

• His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Ignorance, Intelligence

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• In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

  Malcolm X

  Past, Men, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She was average size, with long thin fingers and a random assortment of toes. Her eyes were close set, and she had her father's hooked nose. It looked better on him.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• I did try to come back and listen You never it..I didn't wish it But I did hear every answer ever question It's all about protection stil through the sunlight days I wait Track a ghost through the fog The sun is burning me And you come running out in the wind with me The ocean is your blanket.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Ocean, Fog

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• You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered and replastered over those brains in the past three hundred years. You'll see.

  Matthew Antoine

  Ignorance, Past, Years

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• I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  Pamela Anderson

  Soccer, Mom, Cutting

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

  Rupert Brooke

  Sleep, Kissing, Bed

  New Numbers no. 3 (1914) "The Great Lover"

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• I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Safety, Degrees, Tights

  "Zooey Deschanel: Tights Are My Safety Blanket" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girl, Dog, Sleep

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• In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

  Al Gore

  Priorities, Secret, Surveillance

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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• Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

  Sara Gruen

  Dream, Horse, Lying

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something?

  Julie James

  Feet, Reason, Huxley

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• How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

  Jenny Downham

  Easter, Halloween, Spring

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• Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Comforting, Doe

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beach, Coffee, Fall

  "Dry: A Memoir". Book by Augusten Burroughs, June, 2003.

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Sleep, Dark

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Shadow, Tears

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• He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Letting Go, Hands, Giving

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• The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wings, White, Skins

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?" He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. "The only way I'll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire," she told him.

  Ally Carter

  Hands, Eyebrows, Fire

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• This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

  Franny Billingsley

  Memories, Knowing, People

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.164, A&C Black

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• I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Acceptance, Light

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