Doily Quotes

#1. Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now.

Jonathan Lethem

#2. She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.

Alex Scarrow

#3. Shannon looked at the dumpy ruins around her. It was expansive and disgusting, but like a dog dump with a lace doily draped over it, there was beauty to be found

Debra Anastasia

#4. She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.

Gail Carriger

#5. Somebody embroidered the doily.
Somebody waters the plant,
or oils it, maybe. Somebody
arranges the rows of cans
so that they softly say:
esso - so - so - so
to high-strung automobiles.
Somebody loves us all.

Elizabeth Bishop

#6. I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room - but eventually, you learn to live with it.

Jodi Picoult

#7. The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.)

Theo Ellsworth

#8. He picked up the candelabra, pocketed the doily underneath, then put the candelabra back in place with the pocket watch hanging from it.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.

Cherie Currie

#10. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

John Green

#11. The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Gary Wolf

#12. My mind to me an empire is.

Robert Southwell

#13. I was distracted suddenly from these pleasant thoughts by noticing that, like the eyes in certain portraits, Heather's nipples seemed to have the uncanny ability to follow you around the room. This is the kind of observation that once made, cannot be unmade. Unfortunately.

Kate Atkinson

#14. The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Everyone has their own way of learning.

Paulo Coelho

#16. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#17. Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

#18. There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Alain De Botton

#19. I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

Peter Greenaway