Varnish Quotes

21 Varnish quotes by 18 unique authors

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as… — Chris Christie
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the… — Ted Kooser
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under… — Judith Thurman
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie P Snow
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,… — Henry Van Dyke
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that… — Euell Gibbons
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I… — John Banville
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience… — Jean-Louis Barrault
Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish. — Victoria Beckham
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. — Edward Hopper
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema… — Neil Gaiman
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture is one thing and varnish is another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be… — Barry McGee
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing… — John Rhys-Davies
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form… — Dorian Cox
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie P Snow

Who Wrote These Varnish Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 21 Varnish Quotes as follows: