Sealskin Cover Quotes & Sayings

Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming. — Julian Fellowes

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. — Orson Scott Card

Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are onyx,
and her cheeks vermilion,
her apron wide and kind
and cobalt blue.

She comforts
generations and generations
of children,
who are
"new"
at the convent school.
When they are eight,
they are already up to her shoulder,
they grow up and go into the world,
she remains,
forever,
always incredibly old,
but incredibly never older...
She has an affinity with the hens,
When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,
she is the only grown-up, whose tears
are not frightening tears.
Children can weep without shame,
at her side...
Soeur Marie Emelie...
her apron as wide and kind
as skies on a summer day
and as clean and blue. — Caryll Houselander

Most of the time customers don't know what they want in advance.) — Eric Ries

I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example. — Rei Kawakubo

There is no animal lazier than a cat. — Evelyn E. Smith

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. — Jay Dratler

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. — Milan Kundera

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do. — Tatiana Maslany

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice. — Chas Newkey-Burden

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead. — Paulo Coelho

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. — Neil Young

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology. — Mark Epstein