Wraps Quotes
92 quotes by 79 authors
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Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.
— E. M. Forster
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
— William Hazlitt
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Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to…
— Andre Malraux
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I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour…
— John Brown
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Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes,
— James Cameron
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or…
— Aaron McGruder
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What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his…
— Greil Marcus
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost…
— Willie Mays
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I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely…
— Florence Welch
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I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it,…
— Henny Youngman
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from…
— Euripides
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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
— Annie Dillard
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Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save…
— Sherman Alexie
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I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves…
— Molly Ivins
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As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths…
— Jennifer Weiner
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But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which,…
— William Shakespeare
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My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.
— Shel Silverstein
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I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Who Wrote These Wraps Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 92 Wraps Quotes, led by these top contributors: