Blanket Quotes - Page 2

• Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

  Charles Simic

  Firefighter, Poetry, Enough

  Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller

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• I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.

  Tessa Dare

  May, Joining, Snaps

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• Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Ice Cream, Thumbs, Eating

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• I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

  Brooke Elliott

  Kings, Bed, Size

  "Q&A: 'Drop Dead Diva' Brooke Elliott". Interview with Scott Huver, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 04, 2010.

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• Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

  Kathi Appelt

  Memories, Loss, Someone You Love

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• She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Morning

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• If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

  Rob James-Collier

  Comfort, Passionate, Driven

  "You don't have to be posh to be an actor (but it certainly helps)" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Queens, Humor

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• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, America, Diversity

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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• Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

  Tim McGraw

  Moving, Past, Giving

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

  Robertson Davies

  Legs, Four

  1957 Love and Libel.

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Motivation, Women, Sleep

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Real, Buddhism

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• Love is: Bringing a blanket when someone's asleep. Giving the last piece of food to the other person. Staying awake to listen to them when you are dead tired. Hugging them tightly when they need it the most.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Tired, Giving

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• I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Want, Assuming

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• All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

  Jenny Downham

  Two, Choices, Together

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

  King Sun

  Rap, Insecure, Hip Hop

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• The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Fall, Men, Feet

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• Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.

  Russell Brand

  Might, Information, Looks

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• In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

  Simon Schama

  Congratulations, Exercise, Self

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• Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Hair, Long

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.68, PM Press

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