Quotes of Curl - somelinesforyou

“ I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. ”

- Ezra

“ Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. ”

- Basil Bunting

“ Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Seize time by the forelock. ”

- Pittacus

“ There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good, She was very, very good But when she was bad she was horrid. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. ”

- Michelle Pfeiffer

“ There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation. ”

- Jan Morris

“ Bob Davis is wearing his hair differently this year, short and with curls like Randy Jones wears, I think you call it a Frisbee. ”

- Jerry Coleman

“ The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ You were supposed to look like a G.I. with close-cropped hair, but my hair was too long for the time, a duck tail in the back, curled over in the front. I could pass for 25 when I was 16. It did help me get into the world of burlesque. ”

- Anton LaVey

“ A quarter of an inch of new snow last night, putting down a thin dusting in the woods: the dark brown points of fallen leaves curl up through the snow, making a speckled, polka-dotted forest floor. It is almost dizzying, and beautiful. If I saw it on film, my immediate thought would be, "Too bad they didn't get more snow… ”

- John Jerome

“ The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly. ”

- Lu Yu

“ J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel — than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, jacere, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance… ”

- Theodor Geisel

“ A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. ”

- Pam Brown

“ Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I seem again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of warriors, and the laughter of little children as of old… ”

- Waheenee
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