Wraps Quotes - Page 2

• Are you a peice of Saran Wrap? No Well then why are you acting so clingy?

  Lisi Harrison

  Acting, Clingy, Wells

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• In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Heart, Soul

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Wall, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Shoes, Earth, Pairs

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• If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

  Alexander Smith

  Secret, Wish, Secrecy

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition

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• Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hurt, Stars, Pain

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.237, Indiana University Press

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• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Life, Mean, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 20, 2014

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, People, Mind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Soul, Feelings

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

  Marian Keyes

  Choices, Nails, Different

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

  Tina Fey

  School, Phones, Cells

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• With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Curves, Lovely

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• I can wrap my legs around my neck.

  Janice Dickinson

  Legs, Necks, I Can

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• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  Salma Hayek

  Movie, Book, Home

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• Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Purpose, Literature, Conscious

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

  Russell Simmons

  Rights, Hands, Movement

  "CNN Student News" with Judy Fortin, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2005.

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• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

  Henry Rollins

  Movie, Party, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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• It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Character

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• I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

  Rick Riordan

  Imagination, Reader

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• A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

  Brad Pitt

  Moments, Looking Back

  "Brad Pitt talks about Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2011.

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• What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

  Tyler Perry

  Brain, Film, Millions

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• My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

  Michael Moore

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

  Sandra Bullock

  Giving, Film, Difficult

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