The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
I'ma need my badges and my ribbons, maybe it'll make up for everything I wasn't given. — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that,… — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week.… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents -… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?" She had no idea.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg. — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“In the old days, the general's ribbons / & medals rainbowed across his chest, / & if he were interrogating himself, /… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image