Damask Quotes

#1. Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.

Marianne Moore

#2. Magister Damask, if I may be so bold as to inquire: what is our eventual goal?" "The goal is to extend my life indefinitely. To conquer death.

James Luceno

#3. Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

Tertullian

#4. The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.

Billy Baldwin

#5. A blank, my lord. She never told her love, 110 But let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.

William Shakespeare

#6. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ...

William Shakespeare

#7. They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.

Charles Dickens

#8. Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

William Shakespeare

#9. Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

William Shakespeare

#10. You can have all this mismatched Tupperware and lids, but you can never get them sealed quite right. That one edge always keeps popping up. It's supposed to fit, but it rarely does. You've gotta try a few lids before you find the one that actually snaps.

Alyson Hannigan

#11. In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

Madi Diaz

#13. Tender pauses speak
The overflow of gladness,
When words are all too weak.

William C. Bryant

#14. To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#15. My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

Queen Latifah

#16. My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Margaret Smith

#17. Gods' payment is the best payment.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too.

Sandrine Holt

#19. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Michael Burgess

#20. I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Bob Fosse

#21. No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

Edgar S. Brightman

#22. I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Julie Burchill

#23. Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

Robert Michael Pyle

#24. There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.

Alcoholics Anonymous