Slipcovers Quotes

#1. People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

Judith Martin

#2. I begin to shed my Martha-like anxiety about many things. Washable slipcovers, faded and old - I hardly see them; I don't worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk.

Sue Grafton

#4. I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

John Cheever

#5. This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

Mitch Hedberg

#6. Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. Life loves to take your perfect plans and dump a bucket of paint on them. It's your choice to call it garbage or make something beautiful of it.

Stephanie Erickson

#8. the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist

simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids

Rupi Kaur

#9. There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

George Brandis

#10. It is always an act of desperation, and I keep asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

David Levithan

#11. High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Douglas Coupland

#12. You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world with objects and ideas that will outlive them, and you suddenly glimpse the fires that burn below human despair.

Greg Baxter

#13. Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

#14. Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

#15. The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

#16. Beer tastes terrible, and those that try to tell me otherwise are simply lying to themselves. I drink beer for the sole purpose of getting a buzz or getting drunk.

Amy Daws

#17. Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

Katherine Anne Porter

#18. If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.

Peter Singer