Festooned Quotes

#1. Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#2. What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

Kailash Kher

#3. Minds festooned with error, barnacled with bias, swollen with delusions of godhead.

Fritz Leiber

#4. Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Sydney J. Harris

#5. Only the mother tree remained in the middle of the clearing, bathed in light, heavy with fruit, festooned with blossoms, a perpetual celebrant of the ancient mystery of life.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Members of the court still talked in whispers of the lady-in-waiting who had accidentally worn mismatched stockings to an afternoon tea. They said she made a lovely rosebush, always festooned with stunning flowers in two slightly different colors of peach.
Beka didn't aspire to be a rosebush.

Deborah Blake

#7. Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle.

Ho Chi Minh

#8. A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.

Anne Tyler

#9. He was enchanted by the architecture of the city. Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows. Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices. Stone monkeys frisked among scrolls and seashells and bamboo.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. She'd had it painted, and planted, and primped, and festooned, and draped to within an inch of its very long life. But it was asking too much of the poor thing. The result was something akin to dressing a bulldog up like an opera dancer. Underneath the tulle, it was still a bowlegged bulldog.

Gail Carriger

#11. Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Ayn Rand

#12. Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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Suetonius

#13. There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

Karolina Kurkova

#14. Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Margaret Atwood

#15. At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Lara Giddings

#16. A Good Recipe Is As Good As The Chef That Cooks It

Kirk Castle

#17. Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.

A.C. Dixon

#18. The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

Isaac Newton

#19. It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

Marty Rubin

#20. For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

Anne Fletcher

#21. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

Jose Padilha

#23. In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#24. Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Eisner

#25. Khrennikov had an average ear for music, but perfect pitch when it came to power.

Julian Barnes