Clipped Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. — Michael Caine
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in. — Mae West
There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I… — Les Miles
I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped… — Ethan Hawke
The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip;… — Joseph Conrad
I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The… — Erma Bombeck
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent… — Jay Smith
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each… — Henry James
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends.… — Barbara Demick
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we… — John D. Caputo
The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never… — W.C. Fields
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest… — Henry Ward Beecher
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say… — Oscar Wilde
The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings… — Emma Watson
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. — Oscar Wilde
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings. — Dante Alighieri
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's… — Audra McDonald
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest.… — Glen Hansard

Who Wrote These Clipped Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 38 Clipped Quotes, led by these top contributors: