Beribboned Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television. — Brooke Shields

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. — Fiona Shaw

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it. — Joe Haldeman

Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough. — Debasish Mridha

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience. — Jim Morrison

Her maternal feelings were unlikely to be assuaged by hearing that the marriage had been performed in the middle of the night on a West Indian beach by a disgraced - if not actually defrocked - priest, witnessed by twenty-five seamen, ten French horses, a small flock of sheep - all gaily beribboned in honor of the occasion - and a King Charles spaniel, who added to the generally festive feeling by attempting to copulate with Murphy's wooden leg at every opportunity. The only thing that could make things worse, in Laoghaire's view, would be to hear that I had participated in the ceremony. — Diana Gabaldon

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. — D.H. Lawrence

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. Only then, when it was too late, and Paradise Pickles slumped softly to the floor without so much as a murmur or even the pretense of resistance, did Comrade Pillai realize that what he really needed was the process of war more than the outcome of victory. War could have been the stallion that he rode, part of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out.
He broke the eggs but burned the omelette. — Arundhati Roy

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. — Victor Hugo

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the cause of writer's block. — Karen Karbo

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor. — Shirley Knight

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! — J.K. Rowling

So, now you're getting shot at, you're gonna leave me?"
"Girlie, I'm from Texas. We shoot at each other to say good morning. — Kristen Ashley

You have got to do the shiatsu. I had one back home a month ago. Fantastic."
Marisa Finley frowned under her carrot-ginger-turmeric facial mask.
"What's a shiatsu?" It sounded like an unusual breed of dog.
"I'm taking my shiatsu to the groomers this week to have it shampooed and blow-dried.
And possibly beribboned. — Linda Morris

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world. — Cornel West