Quotes with boot-lace

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  • Andrew Vachss Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Beth Ditto Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • A. J. Liebling If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mary Wilson Little It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
    Mary Wilson Little
    American writer
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  • Germaine Greer Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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