Wrapping Quotes - Page 2

• I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Dark, Night

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• Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Holiday, White, Family And Friends

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• The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

  Phineas Quimby

  Philosophical, Labor, Dies

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (2009). “The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)”, p.456, Seed of Life Publishing

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• Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.

  Lauren Oliver

  Song, I Like You, Strong

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• From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old son's incarceration as 'a short break before college?' A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off? Santa.That's right. A man.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Son, Dark

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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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• I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hands, Fists, Necks

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Poison Study”, p.306, MIRA

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• And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Arms, Instant

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• I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

  Zach Anner

  Shooting, Wrapping Up, Faults

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I'll tell you how you know when you're on something good: when everybody starts to tear up when they're leaving, when they're wrapping for the season. You know, when you say, "All right, we're done with McGillicuddy. That's a wrap for McGillicuddy!" And everybody applauds, but everybody's sad, because McGillicuddy's going to be gone! You know, it's like family going off to college or war. You have this intimate relationship with these people, and then - bam! - they're gone.

  Louie Anderson

  War, College, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.

  Ellen Page

  Goodbye, Woods, Forests

  Source: collider.com

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• One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don't like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour - all work. If two hours - all. I don't want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own - quick, quick.

  Joshua Clottey

  People, Training, Wasting Time

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mother, Children, Struggle

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter II, 1835.

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• Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Suits Of Armor, Doe

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• Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

  Alain de Botton

  Iron, Velvet, Gloves

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Responsibility, Names, People

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Wrapping Up, Painting

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Ideas, Grace

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Thinking, Choices, Flags

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• John Logan was kind of wrapping up - "Well, thanks for coming in..." - and I thought, "Oh, God, this is over and I'm out of here, and I really don't want to leave."So I said, "Can I ask you a question?" He said, "Sure." "What movie do you think you've seen more than any other movie?" And he said, "Wow, let me think about that. I guess probably The Searchers." And I said, "Well, oddly, that's the movie I've seen more than any other movie." And I wasn't just BS-ing. It's true. It's my favorite movie.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Wrapping Up, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

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• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

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• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, Sight, People

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• For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

  Chris Pine

  Christmas, Morning, Growing Up

  "Chris Pine on Jack Frost, Jack Ryan, the bogeyman". Interview with Hilary Fox, www.yahoo.com. November 14, 2012.

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