Ruffles Quotes

• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Men, Wind

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.57, Penguin

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• I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

  Novala Takemoto

  Growing Up, Believe, Matter

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• If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

  Jessica Raine

  Feathers, Ifs

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• The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  England, Shirts, Englishmen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.89

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• Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hurt, Healthy, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.58

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• Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

  Alexander Pope

  Rags, Rogues, Countenance

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• Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

  Alan Lewis

  Jobs, Reason, Bother

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• I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

  Anne Heche

  People, Taught, Problem

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• It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Lakes, Blue, Sky

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• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

  Kathryn Budig

  Focus, Ego, Let It Go

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Heart, Eyelashes, Play

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• I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Color, Doe, Littles

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

  Giambattista Valli

  Flower, Design, Bouquets

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• Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Eye, Character, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.132, e-artnow

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• You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

  Marissa Mayer

  Jocks, Computer, Designer

  "New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Most Memorable Quotes About Being A Woman In Tech" by Britney Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Inspiration, Men, Whales

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.

  James Fallows

  Country, Athlete, Writing

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• In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

  Beatrix Potter

  Gentleman, Gold, Coats

  Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

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• Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
  with smoky wings, entangles them.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Nature, Autumn, Land

  Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney.

  Gail Carriger

  Missing, Hackney, Layers

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• She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

  Gail Carriger

  Fighting, Important, Poison

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• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Lakes, Self, Water

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• Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Swans, Cold, Carols

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 434

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