Wrapped Quotes
551 quotes by 429 authors
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
— Burton Raffel
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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,…
— Aldous Huxley
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The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come…
— Rick Riordan
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in…
— D. H. Lawrence
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If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all…
— J D Salinger
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All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote,…
— Daphne Gottlieb
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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Adam swore harshly. "New werewolves are dangerous, woman. Especially when they are cold and hungry." He looked at Mac, and his voice changed completely, the…
— Patricia Briggs
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For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things.…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people…
— George Washington
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would…
— Albert Einstein
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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a…
— Edward Lear
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The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground.…
— J R Ward
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Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...
— Che Guevara
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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped…
— Alice Sebold
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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian…
— Fritz Leiber
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
— Sylvia Plath
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So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks…
— Janet Frame
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Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on…
— David Almond
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave…
— Stella Gibbons
Who Wrote These Wrapped Quotes
429 authors contributed a total of 551 Wrapped Quotes, led by these top contributors: