Covered Quotes
771 quotes by 665 authors
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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
— Cecil Beaton
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
— Elayne Boosler
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and…
— Giacomo Casanova
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
— Brian Clough
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming…
— Marina Abramovic
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday;…
— Jean de Joinville
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The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every…
— John Peter Altgeld
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your…
— Rajneesh
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a…
— Charles Saatchi
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither…
— Winston Churchill
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The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If…
— Winston Churchill
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I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my…
— Sanjay Dutt
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I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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