satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of…

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

— Judith Viorst

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to…

— Louisa May Alcott

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

— Eugene Jarecki

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift…

— Ellen Raskin

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…

— Margaret Atwood

I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we…

— Malorie Blackman

Then you would hold me up, wouldn't you." He traced over her features with his fingertips. And as he did, for some strange reason,…

— J.R. Ward

Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been a broad…

— Henry Blodget

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

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins.…

— Dan Scanlon

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman…

— Matt Taibbi

The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things.…

— Charles Dudley Warner

His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and…

— Veronica Roth

We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There…

— Stephen Gaghan