Ribbons Quotes

130 quotes by 120 authors

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out… — Lynn Abbey
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of… — Jeff Buckley
I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to… — Jim Carrey
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. — Billy Carter
The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's… — Summer Sanders
You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons… — Martin Dempsey
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at… — Therese of Lisieux
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers… — Russell Means
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece… — Valerie Wilson Wesley
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute… — Stephen King
If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago. — George H. Morris
I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day… — Zooey Deschanel
People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and… — Paul Craig Roberts
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and… — Virginia Woolf
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of… — Northrop Frye
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of… — E. Cobham Brewer
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Alexandra Sokoloff

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