Pairs Quotes - Page 36

• A noble pair of brothers.
  [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

  Horace

  Brother, Noble, Nobility

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• A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

  George Eliot

  Squirrels, Air, Delicacy

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

  Billie Holiday

  New Orleans, Cities, Nylon

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Glitter, Littles

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• In merest prudence men should teach . . .
  That science ranks as monstrous things
  Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--
  E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Angel, Men, Wings

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• As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

  Joseph Hall

  Wind, May, Charitable

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.460

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• you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Cutting, Men, Blood

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• politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

  Roseanne Barr

  United States, Pliers, Politics

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• a car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs of shoes with you at all times!

  Cynthia Heimel

  Moving, Shoes, Dry Cleaning

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Gun, Black

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• Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.

  Taner Edis

  Average, Sea, Imagination

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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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• I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.

  Kate Moss

  Real, Home, Missing

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• You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

  Francis Picabia

  Art, Taken, Men

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• Sometimes miracles come in pairs.

  Richard Branson

  Miracle, Twins, Sometimes

  "Richard Branson gushes over his twin grandchildren: 'Sometimes miracles come in pairs'" by Charlotte Wareing, www.mirror.co.uk. January 19, 2015.

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• How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

  Mimi Pond

  Shoes, Pair Of Shoes, Good Shoes

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

  Dorothee Solle

  Bible, Glasses, Today

  Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.155, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Anxiety, Forever

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Jeans, Hot

  "Rachel Zoe's Style DOs and DON'Ts" by Rachel Zoe, www.glamour.com. August 12, 2012.

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• They say if you fall, someone who loves you will lend a hand for you, I have 8 pairs of hands always ready to hold me back up when I stumble

  Jessica Jung

  Fall, Love You, Hands

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

  Billy Collins

  Swans, Giving, Ponds

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Men, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

  Alex Berenson

  Couple, Sunday, Age

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