Earflaps Quotes

#1. There she was, bundled into sweats and a long wool coat five sizes too large for her, her curls hidden by a massive gray hat with earflaps-a look that could have been pulled off effectively only by someone in 1930s Siberia...or a supremely angular male model.

Hilary Duff

#2. Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners or/part of the rescue:/a muleteer in/earflaps; a/formerly hearty/Midwestern farmer/perhaps. Both/parties trapped/within sight/of the pass.

Kay Ryan

#3. People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler

#4. Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

Pico Iyer

#5. The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Ida B. Wells

#6. It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Robert Jordan

#7. It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

Sean Patrick

#8. Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

Walter Dean Myers

#9. We can't live together," I remember screeching. "We're married. It's too corny!

Jerry Stahl

#10. Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program).

Jon Ronson

#11. Wondering is the act of wise living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. (Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.)

Warren Buffett

#13. I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Bill Veeck

#14. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.

John Michael Hileman

#15. For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh