Top 17 Oilskin Quotes
#1. hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well.
Walidah Imarisha
#2. I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.
Amy Sedaris
#3. Women like bad boys ... Being a good boy never worked for me.
Jude Law
#4. Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
Bernie Glassman
#5. Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
P. J. O'Rourke
#6. writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.
Helen Macdonald
#7. I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#8. A huge blue and white umbrella unfolded out of the vehicle, followed by two legs clad in a masculine-sized pair of gumboots. The driver nudged the door shut and ploughed through the downpour like a striped galleon, only his oilskin coat and denim-clad calves showing.
Tracey Alvarez
#9. I'll show ye to your chamber."
"So long as it's also your chamber," William said, shifting his oilskin pack on his shoulder. "Or has it slipped your mind that ye're my wife?
Mia Marlowe
#10. Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.
Frank Miller
#11. Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.
Parker Young
#13. I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#14. It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
Doris Lessing
#15. I always wanted this - to come to restaurants that raise their own cows and mortgage bottles of wine. But, it makes me feel insecure - reminds me that I'm really just poor, white trash with a good job.
Tarryn Fisher
#16. Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
John Piper
#17. What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.
Elizabeth Dole
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