Brushed Quotes

119 quotes by 93 authors

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to… — Caroline Knapp
I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive… — Colley Cibber
Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge… — Joan Collins
When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. — Rita Dove
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no… — Ernest Hemingway
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed… — Naveen Jain
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed… — Jewel
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. — Naomi Wolf
But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that… — J D Salinger
To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty. — Wendelin Van Draanen
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caughtâ€”in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck
She brushed her eyelashes against his chest. — Jonathan Safran Foer
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves… — Megan Whalen Turner
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,… — Thornton Wilder
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, â€œI think I missed you before I… — Francesca Lia Block
As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the… — Boris Pasternak
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested… — Holly Black
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch

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