Combs Quote by Lewis Mumford Download Open image “Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.” — Lewis Mumford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Combs Geneva Geneva Sleepy Hair Hair Pyjamas Man Combs Men Sleepy Sleepy Tidiness Switzerland
“Mr. Benedict’s amusement sent him right off to sleep, for he had a condition called narcolepsy that caused him to nod off at unexpected… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and… — Ishmael Copy Share Image
“The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice. — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
“Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
“Sadistic military barbers intent on revealing the contours of their skulls for some nefarious phrenological purpose.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The feeling of a man’s beard brushing against your private parts cannot be adequately explained in words. It’s a tactile delight. Soft and ticklish… — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their… — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden… — George Peele Copy Share Image
Sean Combs is the person whom I look up to and appreciate as a father. — Quincy Brown Copy Share Image
I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the… — Joe Dugan Copy Share Image
A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice. — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image