Ribbons Quotes - Page 7

• Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Wind, Together

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Eye, Drawing

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand. "For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me. "Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Kissing, Hands

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• I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  President Visits with Residents of Poplarville, Mississippi, Pearl River Community College, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 5, 2005.

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• Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.

  Teju Cole

  Art, War, White

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Jobs, Believe, Blue

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• [Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when you're with him. I've played golf with him twice, oh, probably 10, 15 years ago.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cutting, Golf, Years

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Brother, Eight, Wake Up

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• If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

  Tom Waits

  Baseball, Cutting, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Girly, Silly, Flower

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• I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, New York, Hands

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

  John Locke

  Men, Marketing, Use

  John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.443, Hackett Publishing

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• As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

  Daniel De Leon

  Mean, Divorce, Cutting

  "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.

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• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Running, Husband, Together

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

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• I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Country, Heart, Years

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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• We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Night, Rivers, Streaming

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.

  George Clooney

  Song, Peace, Jobs

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• She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Hair, Library, Ears

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• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

  Northrop Frye

  Cat, Blue, Imagination

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

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• Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

  Russell Means

  Country, War, Men

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• If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

  George H. Morris

  Horse, Light, Blue

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• The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

  Andre Breton

  Art, Bombs, Frida

  "Surrealism and Painting". Book by André Breton, 1972.

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