Wax Quotes

182 Wax quotes by 154 unique authors

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we… — Margaret Atwood
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. — William Shakespeare
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing… — Jonathan Stroud
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image… — Anais Nin
if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But… — Jodi Picoult
Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like… — Christopher Moore
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had… — Janet Evanovich
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori
The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees,… — Jim Butcher
Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that… — Lisa Kleypas
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face… — William Shakespeare
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human… — Mark Morford
One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world… — Fannie Flagg
Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling… — Louise Fitzhugh
There’s nothing here,” Carter said. “What do you want?” I asked. “We’ve got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue. — Rick Riordan
The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating. — Rick Riordan
Doughboy, we need to talk.” Doughboy opened his wax eyes. “Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you’ve remembered that you… — Rick Riordan
Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous… — Ilona Andrews
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis"… — Eoin Colfer

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