Lace Quotes - Page 2

• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Cary Grant

  Family, Running, Insanity

  "Fictional character: Mortimer Brewster". "Arsenic and Old Lace", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her hand before, quickly and for functional reasons—usually to drag her off to someplace she didn’t want to go—but he had never held her hand. Not the way couples did in parks or lovers did in old movies. Maddy stood there and felt the heat of his grip. It made her think of that first night in the diner, when they had talked about pretend memories and she had felt so connected to him.

  Scott Speer

  Couple, Memories, Taken

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• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

  Andrew Vachss

  Balls, Bowling, Appearance

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• I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.

  Darynda Jones

  Mother, Bored, Personality

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• Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Hair

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• You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Sound, Speech

  Eugene H. Peterson (1996). “Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson”, Harper San Francisco

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• I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Jeans, Long

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• When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Heart, Hands, Ribs

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• In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Expression, Law

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

  Shannon Hale

  Hair, White, Together

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

  Gail Carriger

  Believe, High Heels, Feet

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• I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

  Miranda Kerr

  Underwear, Lingerie, Souvenirs

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Models Are Some of The Most Insecure People I've Met'". Interview with Katie Connor, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Kings, Clothes

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• Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

  Bill Watterson

  Design, Grace, Spiders

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  Kate Chopin

  Literature, Matter, Painting

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Queens, Looks, Grass

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.37, eBookIt.com

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• You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Joseph Kesselring

  Running, Insanity, I Love My Family

  Arsenic and Old Lace act 2 (1941)

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• Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, White, Lucky

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.77, Penguin

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Quilts, Women

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• It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

  George Steiner

  Frustration, Ties, One Day

  "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

  Emilie Autumn

  Cutting, Reason, Unbound

  Song: 306, Album: Opheliac

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• Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

  William Maxwell

  Odor, Velvet, His Love

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”

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