Top 39 Clippings Quotes
#1. However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.
Ann Scott
#2. As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
William John Locke
#3. What level of personal are we talking about?" she mumbled. "I don't mind discussing my periods in graphic detail, but I'm probably going to stay quiet about the jar of fingernail clippings I carry with me at all times.
Darcy Coates
#4. I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
Robert McCloskey
#5. When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#6. Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up.
Jenna McCarthy
#7. If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
Peter Benchley
#8. They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
Jeanette Winterson
#9. If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
Alex Haley
#10. A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.
Richard Sherman
#11. I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.
Zoe Trope
#12. When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
Janine Di Giovanni
#13. My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.
Peter Hain
#14. Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
Annalee Newitz
#15. These reviews of David's performances come from my father's collection of David's clippings, which he certainly never burned as is depicted in Shine. After he died Leslie kept the clippings, and then passed them on to David. I made myself some copies years later.
Margaret Helfgott
#16. The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Fulton J. Sheen
#17. You said nothing to me of the newspaper clippings."
"No, because you were displaying ... snippiness yesterday."
"Snippiness?" he asked.
"It's a word."
"I think not."
"I'll ask Books when we get back.
Lindsay Buroker
#18. I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'
Jay Kay
#19. Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.
Scott Adams
#20. The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.
Paula Poundstone
#21. I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.
Brian Pinkerton
#22. I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
Nas
#24. Vol picks up the cup of tea in both hands and takes a long sip. Mm, grass-clippings. Her favourite.
Nenia Campbell
#25. Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Larry Wall
#26. Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the growing mountains of useless information produced by the KGB.
Masha Gessen
#27. I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps from people's studios; like newspaper clippings, weird drawings and stuff they might not necessarily show as artists.
Leo Fitzpatrick
#28. It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.
Sam Walton
#29. It's a sad day when I'm emotionally invested in a fantasy.
Pepper Winters
#30. It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
Jodi Picoult
#31. Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.
Anne Bishop
#32. People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.
Rajneesh
#33. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.
Shinji Moon
#35. Do you love me? That laugh of hers. What had it meant? Stupid question. Why ask? You talk too much. Or else: What is love? Or possibly: In your dreams. Then
Margaret Atwood
#36. The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.
Charles Dickens
#38. One thing more: Wonderland and I are the same. You love one of us, you love the other. You are Wonderland, too. Which means we are the perfect fit, in more ways than you can even imagine. On our day together, I'll take great pleasure in showing you all of them.
A.G. Howard
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