Top 34 Trimmings Quotes
#1. Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.
Anne Graham Lotz
#2. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#3. Yet why must grammar be like a prison for the mind? Might not language be as a closet full of gowns? Of a generally similar cut, with a hole for the head and neck to pass, but filled with difference and a variety of trimmings so that we don't grow bored?
Danielle Dutton
#4. These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna
#5. It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.
Ludwig Von Mises
#6. My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.
Mario Testino
#7. Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir
#8. A person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back may be the best description I've ever read of what it feels like for a depressed person to try to cheer herself up. Yet this description applies to any kind of suffering that resists our attempts to address it.
Tullian Tchividjian
#9. Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#10. Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#11. Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Gregory Bateson
#12. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
Edie Falco
#13. I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
Jane Austen
#14. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.
Carolyn Haines
#15. Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much.
Tom Douglas
#16. A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.
Buwei Yang Chao
#17. Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
Andrew Tobias
#18. The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Oliver Goldsmith
#19. As I turned around, looking directly at me was what appeared to be an Indian Chief with all of the regality and trimmings with a full headdress. He was my height about 5'11" and his face was thin and worn, obviously he seemed very old, yet vaguely familiar.
John V. Panella
#20. The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
Ian Schrager
#21. Without passion everything is lame in this life.
Baris Gencel
Baris Gencel
#22. Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat
planet Earth
could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama
soap opera with literary trimmings.
Edward Abbey
#23. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
C. West Churchman
#24. There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.
Beth Moore
#25. Beer's for the good times. But ain't nothing like a big ass bowl of ice cream with all the trimmings to chase the blues away for me.
Elizabeth Reyes
#26. This really isn't fair," Mena said. "What is 'fair'?" asked one of the watchers called Devoth. "I don't know this word.
David Anthony Durham
#27. Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
Mark Twain
#28. Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
Bryan Sykes
#29. The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.
Oliver Goldsmith
#30. Males
they've all trained against each other. They expect attacks to certain zones on their bodies and from someone who's used to relying on upper-body strength. And they always, always underestimate women.
Susan Ee
#31. Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
Andre Marrou
#32. If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? ... Let's review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder - red-blooded murder - with trimmings, of course.
Agatha Christie
#33. The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
Dr. Seuss
#34. It's like you are a car, a nice car that hadn't been washed for a year.
And then you got a wash and wax and all the trimmings.
You're sparkling, but you're still the same great car.
Lissa Price
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