Cover Quotes
1427 Cover quotes by 1149 unique authors
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
— Alexander Pope
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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms…
— Edward Thomas
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My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas…
— Paul Weller
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy…
— Al Franken
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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
— Milton Friedman
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
— Lady Gaga
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
— Martin Gore
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Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest…
— Ellie Goulding
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I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who…
— Andrew Gross
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I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also…
— Daphne Guinness
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I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing…
— Joan Collins
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If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.
— Lauren Conrad
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It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use,…
— Alice Cooper
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best…
— Billy Corgan
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more…
— Billy Corgan
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I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She…
— Miley Cyrus
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
— Bobby Darin
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You…
— Zooey Deschanel
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