
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