After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine;… — William Safire Copy Share Image
For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were… — Brian Viglione Copy Share Image
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
