Pleated Skirt Quotes

#1. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.

A. Lee Martinez

#3. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

Robert Browning

#5. As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Dave Barry

#6. Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of ungrace.

Philip Yancey

#7. Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.

Amy Poehler

#8. To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

Saul Bellow

#9. I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

Jess Walter

#10. The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Lee Strobel

#11. We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

John Eldredge

#12. We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Julia Gillard

#13. Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Maira Kalman

#15. Love is easily killed.

Oscar Wilde

#16. It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long

Samantha Shannon