Gilding The Lily Quotes

#1. This wasn't a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word "gaudy" sound sweet and demure by contrast.

Courtney Milan

#2. I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

Fred Schepisi

#3. A work of art is an exaggeration.

Andre Gide

#4. I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,

Erykah Badu

#5. Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ...

Alistair Begg

#6. One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.

George Hammond

#7. Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

George Eastman

#8. Passed to the pilots flying at NORAD's direction.By 10:45 there was, however, another set of fighters circling Washington that had entirely different rules of engagement.These

Anonymous

#9. Well, I figure if you're gonna screw things up by skipping school, the day better be worth it.

Katie Klein