Trimming Quotes
34 quotes by 34 authors
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain…
— Thomas More
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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time…
— Jimmy Roy
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern…
— Edward Abbey
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Many a family tree needs trimming
— Kin Hubbard
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All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak…
— Michael Klaper
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Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
— Edouard Manet
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My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants.…
— Gregoire
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There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I…
— Veronica Lake
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Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that…
— Charles Thomas Jackson
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Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.
— Piet Zwart
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Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even…
— Joan D. Chittister
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A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in childhood. Care should be taken…
— Eliza Bisbee Duffey
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The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
— Dr. Seuss
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Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them…
— Charles Babbage
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The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like…
— Jerry Pournelle
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Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
— Criss Jami
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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
— Mike Lee
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their…
— Gary Ackerman
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I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it…
— Andy Rooney
Who Wrote These Trimming Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 34 Trimming Quotes, led by these top contributors: