Quotes About Mincing

#1. someone else, bore its way in and feed off that mind too. Even the cute little student mincing along in her flowery dress, the shuffling old fella with his shuffling spaniel, they look Ebola-lethal. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me. Maybe I'm getting the flu.

Tana French

#2. Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Ann Coulter

#3. Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

James Huneker

#4. I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. [H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.

A.S. Byatt

#6. The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke

#7. A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

Chic Murray

#8. We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just talk and a very deep companionship that none of us would ever be able to fathom.

Jack Kerouac

#10. It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Mark Twain

#11. I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie ...

William Shakespeare

#12. When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.

Eddie Izzard

#13. We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

Pope Francis

#14. Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Jennifer Connelly

#15. I feel most people's sexuality is enormously complicated. That's what it means to be human. Wouldn't it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn't it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

Janet Jackson

#16. Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

John Sununu

#17. Step number one for changing the entire world is falling in love with it as it already is. The same is true for changing yourself.

Mike Dooley

#18. while his skull gave him the general impression that someone had removed it while he had slept, and swapped it for one two or three sizes too small.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.

Tommy Wirkola

#20. Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

Thucydides

#21. Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Phylicia Rashad

#22. It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Toni Morrison

#23. To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#24. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

#25. The beauty and meaningfulness of an ordinary life.

Richard Alan Carter

#26. I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.

Channing Tatum