Quotes for All
She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she’d learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon. Gail Carriger
I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or … Read more
He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it. Eric Stoltz
Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, \”That must have been the sun! Emily Dickinson
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely … Read more
…occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. Elizabeth Wurtzel
John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon. Elizabeth Taylor
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, \”One thing there’s no getting by — I’ve been a wicked girl,\” said I; But if I can’t be sorry, why, I might as well be glad! Edna St. Vincent … Read more