Plasters Quotes

• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Conceited, Self

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Different, Might

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• I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Shining, Fragments, Peeling

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• There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

  Kate Morton

  Wall, Reality, Doors

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

  Peter Shaffer

  Husband, Caring, Boys

  "Equus". Book by Peter Shaffer, 1973.

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• You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.

  Anna Godbersen

  Eye, Ceilings, Irony

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• Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.

  J.R. Ward

  Jobs, Wall, Blow

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• Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

  Paolo Giordano

  Years, Two, Silence

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• I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Memories, Moving

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Night, Missing

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.7, Vintage

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• In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Fall, Joy

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• I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

  Amy Sedaris

  Nice, Play, Fake

  Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Skeletons, Bridges, Iron

  Christopher Isherwood (1963). “The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Saint, Single Man

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.145, e-artnow

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• A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

  William Ellery Channing

  Together, Bricks, Dignity

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

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• Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

  Eamon de Valera

  Together, Fiction, Fortresses

  "I'm Glad You Asked Me That : Irish Political Quotations". Book by Eoghan Corry, 2007.

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• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
  "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
  "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Father, Land

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• The Christos-image
  is most difficult to disentangle
  from its art-craft junk-shop
  paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
  of pain-worship and death-symbol.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• All the contagion of the south light on you,
  You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
  Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
  Further than seen, and one infect another
  Against the wind a mile!

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Rome, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

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• I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Food, Differences

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• Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  Carolyn Wells

  Christian, Grace, Biographies

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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