Supple Quotes

48 quotes by 38 authors

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and… — Henry David Thoreau
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals
You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have… — Jacqueline Bisset
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. — William Shakespeare
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. — Samuel Johnson
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… — Emily Dickinson
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for… — Isadora Duncan
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… — D. H. Lawrence
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn… — Bruce Springsteen
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts â€”… — Charlotte Bronte
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if… — E E Cummings
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:… — Joe Dunthorne

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