Mothballs Quotes

#1. Is that really so much to ask? One sexy, gorgeous, mentally stable, gainfully employed guy with an amazing personality, that doesn't smell like mothballs or live with his mother?

Victoria Michaels

#2. But the Russian writers would be packed away in mothballs and stored in our basement. I would savor the idea of Dostoevsky's, Tolstoy's and Gorki's volumes molding in the dank cellar, wisps of camphor and odors of wet earth floating above them. I

Maya Angelou

#3. Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

Larry Niven

#4. The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

Kyle MacLachlan

#5. As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

Richard Branson

#6. Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#7. You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

John Steinbeck

#8. I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

Steve Martin

#9. If you should be walking and, suddenly and unaccountably, smell lavender and mothballs, you may have just passed a corner of Zarenyia's intra-dimensional closet.

Jonathan L. Howard

#10. So I stare at the beautiful brand-new crinoline dress that's mine alone with no whiff of mothballs. Even so, it droops a little.

Fanny Britt

#11. There was this cheap motel on the outskirts of town called the Tick-Tock Inn, with green-and-yellow vinyl curtains and beds that smelled like mothballs and ass.

Maris Black

#12. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.

Rebecca McNutt

#13. Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fuller

#14. The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed

Matthew Quick

#15. Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job

Sunday Adelaja

#16. The end of the world hurts like a bitch.

Graham McNamee

#17. These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts.

Rachel Scott

#18. There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

Erich Fromm

#19. There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

Kate Griffin

#20. People do the damndest things when they're in love.

Jennifer L. Armentrout