Covered Quotes - Page 29

• The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Too Much, Fruit

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.111

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• There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

  Chris Bonington

  Nature, Travel, Block

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping the top trees with light. The sky is clear and shining as a china plate and the water playfully ruffled with wind. Every wisp of fog is gone and the air is full of the resinous smell of the trees. Seabirds are flashing above the sails golden like creatures from Heaven, but the sailors raise a few shots to keep them from the rigging.

  Alice Munro

  Smell, Light, Hair

  Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.322, Random House

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

  Grantland Rice

  Sports, Moving, Practice

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• Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like $8,000 worth of advertising for the first edition, and that was in 1966. I printed up 50,000 copies, and I didn't even have to charge for them on the newsstand because my costs were already covered.

  Richard Branson

  Purpose, Cost, Magazines

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• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Ocean, Hard Work

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, Awards, House

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas-he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.

  Jackson Pearce

  Team, Heart, Fighting

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• If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Fur

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my two headed love child, it's a big foot baby all covered in fur.

  Mojo Nixon

  Baby, Children, Two

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• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Strong, Real, Reading

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

  Toby Keith

  Religious, Kissing, Blessing

  Song: It's All Good, Album: Unleashed, 2002

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Covered Up, Live For Today, Ordinary

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• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  Felicity Huffman

  Spring, Mean, Kids

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• The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

  Paul Ince

  Sweat, Waiting, Lasts

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• Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

  Kelly Jones

  Two, Albums, Band

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• By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.

  Karlie Kloss

  Fashion, Makeup, Thinking

  "Model Hot Seat: Karlie Kloss' Beauty Secrets" by Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. September 13, 2009.

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• I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Broken, Routine

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• One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

  John Kricfalusi

  Jobs, Editors, Voice

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• The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

  Marian McPartland

  Space, House, Kitchen

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• Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Hero, People, Giving

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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