Wraps Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Office, Guy

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• Sports is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I never played any sports, I don't watch any sports, I hardly know the rules to any sporting event. Really, I'm borderline mentally damaged when it comes to sports.

  Scott Clifton

  Sports, Events, Watches

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

  William Browne

  Clouds, Affliction, Hours

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• Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

  Stevie Smith

  People, May, Fancy

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• God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Clothings

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• Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?

  Amy Sedaris

  Wall, Looks, Framed

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• I wrap myself up in virtue.
  [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

  Horace

  Virtue

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• The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

  Amelia Warner

  Party, Home, Night

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• Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

  Keri Russell

  Baby, Kissing, Trying

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• I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

  Adam Carolla

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Adam Carolla keeps political rants fast and loose". www.politico.com.

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• I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Girly, Silly, Flower

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• Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.

  Kate Richards O'Hare

  Country, Stars, War

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• Watch out for love
  (unless it is true,
  and every part of you says yes including the toes),
  it will wrap you up like a mummy,
  and your scream won't be heard
  and none of your running will run.

  Anne Sexton

  Running, Toes, Watches

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, Clothes, House

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• Rub a half potato on your wart
  and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close
  your eyes and whirl three times and throw.
  Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

  Richard Hugo

  Fall, Eye, Rags

  Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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