Ribbons Quotes

130 Ribbons quotes by 118 unique authors

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr.
The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased.… — Ray LaHood
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. — Orson Welles
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the… — Jeff MacNelly
The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of. — Brenna Yovanoff
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time… — Charles Manson
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. — Dennis Rodman
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company… — James Surowiecki
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns… — Matt Taibbi
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom… — Christopher Moore
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied… — Emily Dickinson
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. — Anne Lamott
I get all tangled up in your ribbons. — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. — Sue Monk Kidd
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on… — Franny Billingsley
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It… — Dr. Seuss
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught… — Stephen Chbosky
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and… — Anne Lamott
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy. — Sarah Addison Allen
Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it… — Jodi Picoult

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