Sheets Quotes - Page 21

• I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Sexy, Cutting

  "Marc Jacobs on Sex Appeal, Casting Louis Vuitton, and Getting Ready in the Morning" by Charlotte Cowles, www.thecut.com. March 23, 2010.

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• If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Giving, Bulls

  "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy" by Steve Martin, www.stevemartin.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  E. Nesbit

  Sheep, Dragons, People

  E. Nesbit (2016). “THE BOOK OF DRAGONS: 8 Dragon Tales from Edith Nesbit author The Railway Children”, p.54, Abela Publishing Ltd

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• And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

  John Donne

  Death, Intricate

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.468

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• So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

  Harold Acton

  Regret, Real, Writing

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• My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.

  Kim Kardashian

  Mom, Grandmother, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

  Carol Friedman

  Cameras, Stubborn, Assistants

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• We all get attached to frayed towels, mismatched sheets and shapeless pillows, associating them with years of comfort, but they have ceased to be functional! As for the plethora of hotel freebies, gather them in a basket to be offered as a hospitality service to your overnight guests. They'll be pleased by your thoughtfulness-and amazed that you're so organized.

  Julie Morgenstern

  Years, Comfort, Guests

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• In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Agreement, Balance, Letters

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• The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.

  Michael Hudson

  People, House, Balance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

  Charlie Clouser

  Paper, Phases, Want

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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• I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

  Paul Newman

  Sleep, Heart, Stuff

  Source: bitesizecliftbar.tumblr.com

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• I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

  Umberto Eco

  Sex, Believe, Escaping

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• Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

  Jim Trelease

  Real, Book, Skills

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• One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Rooms

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• At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."

  Michael Phelps

  Thinking, Goal, Age

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.

  Milton Friedman

  Balance, Income, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Doors

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• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Reality, Concentration Of Wealth, Perception

  "The 'Uncredible' Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. October 10, 201.

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• Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

  Peter Cundill

  Long, Balance, Debt

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• It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene...not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under the sheets. And he was incredibly sort of vibrant and outgoing, but then he suddenly got very, like, 'I'm engaged and I'm getting married!' And I was, 'Okay, that's good. I just won't be touching you, then!'

  Talulah Riley

  Lying, Touching You, Frost

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• I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Phones, Careers

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• I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

  Roger Daltrey

  Cutting, Guitar, Hands

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• [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

  Myron Ebell

  Ice, Melting, Study

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• Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?

  Ian Plimer

  Eye, Light, Ice

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