Wrapping Quotes

103 quotes by 97 authors

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside. — Walter Darby Bannard
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every… — Natalie Portman
Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them. — Chip Conley
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do… — Samuel Lover
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're… — Tom Waits
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. — William Arthur Ward
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. — Elwyn Brooks White
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footingâ€¦. Iâ€™m a cloud, congealed around a central object,… — Margaret Atwood
If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of… — Daniel Handler
Thereâ€™s nowhere to escape,â€ Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. Thatâ€™s not true, baby,â€ said Desiree. She took… — Francesca Lia Block
If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If… — Henry Rollins
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
Then you would hold me up, wouldn't you." He traced over her features with his fingertips. And as he did, for some strange reason, he… — J R Ward
I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct… — Rick Riordan
Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be… — Louisa May Alcott
I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could… — Malorie Blackman
maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us-- — Mary Oliver

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