Quotes with wrapped

  • Not a red rose or a satin heart. 
 I give you an onion. 
 It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. 
 It promises light 
 like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
  • Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Bird Johnson Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barack Obama I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart.
    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
    Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
    BBC, 1st October 1939
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Burton Hillis The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • John Ruskin When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Billy Gardell You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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