Ribbons Quotes

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

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg. — Jo Baker

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk Jr.

If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago. — George H. Morris

Heather leaned into Georgie and sighed. "Sometimes I feel like her daughter. And sometimes I feel like the dog with the least ribbons." Heather — Rainbow Rowell

bludgeoning countless typewriter ribbons, — Gilbert King

A few wisps of smoke still rose from the blackened stones of Hazdar, twisted like ribbons by the wind. — George R R Martin

Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart. — Flavia Cacace

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy. — Walter Kerr

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes. — Romulus Whitaker

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks. — Colum McCann

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat — Don Marquis

Gifts have ribbons, not strings. — Vanna Bonta

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. — Victor Hugo

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits? — Olivia Wilde

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence — Slavoj Zizek

She wore ribbons in her black hair and clung to her dreams — Robert James Waller

The poets pinned tragedies
to their chests like ribbons. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon — V.C. Andrews

And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind. — Terry Brooks

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings! — Dr. Seuss

Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder. — Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded. — George Carlin

I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons. — Alexandra Bracken

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. — Frank Zappa

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck — Ilona Andrews

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. — Suzanne Collins

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. — Andre Breton

I've always thought that violet ribbons look especially nice with brown hair. — Julia Quinn

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. — Sue Monk Kidd

Her hair had fallen out of its ribbons and her knee was scraped. She was exactly everything a little girl should be. — Roger Bellini

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon. — Elizabeth Taylor

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons. — Amber Dawn

I know my breasts, small
as plums, would win no blue ribbons.
But in your hands they tremble and fill
with song like plump, white birds. — Cecilia Llompart

She's chiffon and satin ribbons. I'm raw meat and razor blades. — Karen Marie Moning

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie

I closed my eyes and lay flat With my back to the ocean And my face to the sky. I lifted my hands and caught ribbons of wind — Autumn Doughton

But that was the strange comfort of long-standing friendship - ribbons of familiarity and old love woven through your life. — Alexis Hall

The girl behind the counter was prim, but bad at tying ribbons. Inexcusable. — Haruki Murakami

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. — Loretta Lynn

I get all tangled up in your ribbons. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

His words drifted across Death's scythe and split tidily into two ribbons of consonants and vowels. — Terry Pratchett

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. — Oscar Wilde

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. — Orson Welles

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

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one. — David Sedaris

My best girl wore diesel. Steamy asphalt ribbons poured over her gravel shoulders. Curves that took me to Zanzibar.... — Michael Walsh

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. — Orson Scott Card

How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies. — Margaret Atwood

They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers. — Hosho McCreesh

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? — George Orwell

I will personally nail his nuts to the floor before slicing him to ribbons. — Nalini Singh

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. — Eileen Granfors

And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons of air. — Jesse Ball