Wraps Quotes - Page 11

• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, Clothes, House

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• Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Skills

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.

  Kate Richards O'Hare

  Country, Stars, War

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• God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Clothings

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• Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?

  Amy Sedaris

  Wall, Looks, Framed

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• My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

  Shel Silverstein

  Hair, Clothes, Beard

  Shel Silverstein, “My Beard”

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• I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Christmas, Brother

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• I wrap myself up in virtue.
  [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

  Horace

  Virtue

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• The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

  Amelia Warner

  Party, Home, Night

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• Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

  Keri Russell

  Baby, Kissing, Trying

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• I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

  Adam Carolla

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Adam Carolla keeps political rants fast and loose". www.politico.com.

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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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• Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Father, Love You, Mean

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• About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tea Leaves, Three, Pieces

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• Sports is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I never played any sports, I don't watch any sports, I hardly know the rules to any sporting event. Really, I'm borderline mentally damaged when it comes to sports.

  Scott Clifton

  Sports, Events, Watches

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.

  Jason Rezaian

  Country, Iran, Answers

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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• In this case, I don't know why they [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] thought I would be a good lavash wrap or I would do a good Middle Eastern accent. They just assumed I would. They called one day, and they're like, "They're doing this read-through for Sausage Party, and you're going to play a lavash wrap in it." After I looked up what a lavash wrap was, I was like, "Oh, cool."

  David Krumholtz

  Party, Play, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always played Vash [in the Sausage Party]. I played him at the table read. We probably did five or six table reads over the course of the first five years of trying to get it made and finally getting it made. I saw a lot of actors come and go, but I stuck around, so I guess they were happy with what I was doing. No one could play a lavash wrap like I could.

  David Krumholtz

  Party, Years, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Intelligent, Thinking, Important

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Laughter, Love Is

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Community, Soul

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

  George Galloway

  Mean, Blow, People

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• We created this journey [in the Begin], sonically, that people can really wrap their heads around and live with and get to know us a little bit more. The dark colors, the light colors, our up-tempos, and our down-dreamy stuff.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dark, Journey, Color

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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