Quotes About Parasol

#1. Hail to the Victorious Parasol!

Gail Carriger

#2. I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.

Suzi Quatro

#3. needing arms to hold me safe during the darkness, wanting kisses on my face to put me to sleep, to wake me up, to put over me a safe parasol of love.

V.C. Andrews

#4. She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Gail Carriger

#5. Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.

Gail Carriger

#6. And why, exactly, was she in no danger from him? Why didn't he want her with the fervor of a thousand over-heating engines? She ought to be constantly ogled and groped, having to beat him off with her parasol, her fan, and maybe one of her walking boots.

Sherry Thomas

#7. I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.

Susan Dennard

#8. Musk loves costume parties as well, and turned up at one dressed like a knight and using a parasol to duel a midget wearing a Darth Vader costume.

Ashlee Vance

#9. Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. It looks like you managed to build your own pack, anyway, my dear. A parasol protectorate, perhaps one might say.

Gail Carriger

#11. I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

Gail Carriger

#12. What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

#13. The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the darkness beyond, the single houses, double houses, and villas were lined up in cramped, neat rows which ran toward the tip of the peninsula. p94

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. I killed one! I stabbed it in the head with a parasol."
Even Nora couldn't find words for this revelation. Renfield was the first to comment. "I can't tell if that's the most inspiring thing I've ever heard of the most horrifying.

Lia Habel

#16. He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Gail Carriger

#17. I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.

Rita Rudner

#18. You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."

Jack Antonoff

#19. A rector lives in a web of pretty secrets, and confidences and warnings, and the wiser he is the less he will regard them. He

E. M. Forster

#20. There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

Ed Helms

#21. I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

Bong Joon-ho

#22. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Candida Martinelli

#23. I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

Danielle Steel

#24. Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.

Gail Carriger

#25. Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

Gail Carriger

#26. Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

Roger Ascham

#27. I'm just interested in finding out what the hell goes. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want - some bastard with wavy hair?

J.D. Salinger

#28. Oh! Everything I loved!

Victor Hugo

#29. Alexia found her voice. Couldn't I just whack him once? Just a little one, over the head? He would hardly notice.

Gail Carriger

#30. The higher the testosterone, the lower the maturity level.

Jennifer DeCuir

#31. Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

Walter Martin

#32. The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Michael E. DeBakey

#33. Dragons don't bother with introductions.

Robin Hobb

#34. Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.

Ian Feuer