Quotes About Burlap

#1. January 26: Marilyn is invited to attend the Foreign Press Association's First Annual International Film Festival at the Club Del Mar in Santa Monica and creates a sensation by wearing an Idaho potato burlap bag designed for her by Billy Travilla.

Carl Rollyson

#2. She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reasons sat poorly with her.

Ben H. Winters

#3. Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

Patrick Dennis

#4. 'Translations,' Lateran said scornfully, examining the bruises along Kestrel's ribs. 'Like caressing your lover through a burlap sack. You get the gesture of the thing, but not the nuance, and it is overall an irritating experience.'

L.S. Baird

#5. You look good to me," he said, his eyes raking appreciatively over her. "I think ranch life must suit you."
"Thanks. You look good to me too." He was dressed in his customary faded jeans and a worn denim jacket, but Keith would look good in a burlap sack.

Victoria Vane

#6. You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You're sacking them. You're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

Deacon Jones

#7. Silence took one of the burlap sacks from her pack and handed it to William Ann, then removed her hammer. It wasn't some war weapon, like her grandfather had spoken of. Just a simple tool for pounding nails. Or other things.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?"
"Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack.

Kate Noble

#9. I like my coffee like I like myself ... making rustling noises inside a burlap bag

Josh Stern

#10. I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater.

Rick Rude

#11. A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Demetri Martin

#12. My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Joe Frazier

#13. How's our blue rose?" the doctor asked.
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"If you really want to know, I feel sorry for the poor thing," Elinor went on. "All wrapped up that way. I'm starting to think there's no point in being a rose if you're tied up and covered with burlap.

Alice Hoffman

#14. No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.

Erik Larson

#15. A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Jane Hirshfield

#16. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

Claude McKay

#17. He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

Cornelia Funke

#18. But a respectful hug that told her he wouldn't put her reputation on the line, not now or ever.

Karen Kingsbury

#19. Although there probably wouldn't be Coca-Cola in Elysium, and that was a truly depressing thought.

Mia Sheridan

#20. The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.

Henry F. Schaefer, III

#21. When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

Sean Combs

#22. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

#23. Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

Masami Saionji

#24. I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.

Mike Caro

#26. Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Moby