Plucking Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but… — Virginia Woolf
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market. — Joseph Conrad
I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art… — Ronald Reagan
I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I… — Cillian Murphy
There are jobs Americans arent doing. ... If youve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what Im… — George W. Bush
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of… — Arthur Nersesian
I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal.… — Phil Robertson
But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows… — Natalia Vodianova
You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. — Geri Jewell
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. — Beverly Cleary
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing… — Joanne Stepaniak
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet… — Caroline Norton
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are… — J C Ryle
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? — Angelina Jolie
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. — Barbara Tuchman
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong? — Emily Dickinson
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip. — Courteney Cox
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

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