Plaiting Quotes & Sayings

AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted. — Gail Carson Levine

And still on a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a gypsy's ribbon looping the purple moor,
The highwayman comes riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard,
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred,
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter
Bess, the landlord's daughter
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. — Alfred Noyes

Seriously, it's okay to be sad, but if you let sadness control your life, you'll never have one. — Anna Todd

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. — Wilhelm Reich

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts. - Louis Aragon — Esther Perel

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. — Eric Alterman

A necklace is a great way to allow someone to choke you without having to bring their own supplies," she muttered. — K.F. Breene

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one. — Kevin Kline

In the forest, I like you like that without anesthesia. — Gwen Calvo

Sometimes the distance of years - all that was contained within its concertina folds - was a physical ache. — Kate Morton

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock. — Angela Carter

I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it. — Sarah Hay

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. — Charles Bukowski

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. — Issey Miyake