Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There's a fortune of Authentic Vintage French Linen Tea Towels on every clothes line. These are the exact kind of linens that… — Vivian Swift Copy Share Image
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures'… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world.… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Nurturing and fulfilling, Marsala is a natural fit for the kitchen and dining room – making it ideal for tabletop, small appliances,… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan,… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
