Hoopskirt Quotes & Sayings

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. — William Dunbar

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup. — Julia Ward Howe

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. — Thich Nhat Hanh

When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?' — Larry Fitzgerald

They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation. — Frank Herbert

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater. — Jeremy Abbott

They should never have put me with that woman ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour. — Gordon Brown

Is there anything I can say to convince you to stay out of this?" he pleaded, his voice taking on a softer tone.
I shook my head. "Of course not."
"I didn't think so," he said miserably. — Ada Adams

The man starts wars all the fucking time, only this time, when I needed a little conflict? Now he's the fucking peacemaker. — James S.A. Corey

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.' — John McAfee

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. — Erich Fromm

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ... — Elizabeth Goudge

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him. — Frederick Douglass

She pushed my chest like she wanted me off of her, but her fingers had my shirt clutched in them and I knew she was full of shit. She wanted me. — S.C. Stephens

I reached our building only to find a wide-eyed Southern belle wearing a Civil Way-era dress blocking the front door. A silk parasol and a full hoopskirt completed her ensemble. I wore something like it to a costume party once, but hers was an original. Frustration was back, and now it was in my way.
In the form of freaking Scarlatt O'Hara.
Sighing, I stuck my hand through her stomach to turn the knob, meeting no resistance. I rolled my eyes as she gasped, fluttered her eyelashes, and disappeared in a puff of air.
You know, Scarlett, Rhett didn't give a dang, and frankly, I don't either. — Myra McEntire

The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity. — Debasish Mridha