Wraps Quotes - Page 11

• Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

  Diane Ackerman

  Men, Giving, Rope

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• You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Know How, Knows

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• Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Superhero, Capes, Superwoman

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2011

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• If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work

  R.A. Dickey

  Hurt, Children, Giving

  R.A. Dickey (2012). “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball”, p.129, Penguin

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• I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

  Eric Stoltz

  Practice, Episodes

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• The hole in my heart, I can’t even begin to describe. It’s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly they’re not in it anymore. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you can’t feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little while. Or maybe even a long while. For both of us.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Heart, Long, Littles

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.281, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

  Maxine

  Adventure, Feet, Envy

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• When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Home, Dark

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• I think to be a true style icon, you just have to dress yourself. There are so many actresses floating around who have people picking out their outfits for them; that's hard for me to wrap my head around or celebrate.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Thinking, Icons, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Television, Vanishing, Screens

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

  Aaron McGruder

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

  John J. Geddes

  Dog, Fear, Heart

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• What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fear, Heart, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “The Evil Eye”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Acceptance, Numbers

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

  Richard Simmons

  Real, Serious Person, People

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• I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

  Amy Sedaris

  Holiday, Turkeys, Fake

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• I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Cocoons, Warm

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• Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Dream, Lying

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

  E. M. Forster

  Past, Clouds, Students

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• The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.46

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• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Beauty, Long, Desire

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

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• I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Couple, Two

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• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Circles, People, Film

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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