Top 78 Wicker Quotes
#1. I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
Nicolas Cage
#2. Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
Sister Parish
#3. A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.
Gail Carriger
#4. I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
Rashid Johnson
#5. The very concept of a loving personal creator was only ever a secondary invention, a grinning wicker man thrown together in antiquity and stood in place as a chimerical response to a world whose everyday works betray the fantasy in every possible way.
John Zande
#6. If you'd like to unwrap me," he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, "we still have an hour until the temple service.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent
#8. When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.
Andre Leon Talley
#9. Perched in one corner, like some sort of ship's figurehead, was an oddly sinister wicker chicken. It frowned down upon her with an air of chubby disdain.
Gail Carriger
#10. She surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.
Vladimir Nabokov
#11. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#12. Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.
Virginia Woolf
#13. The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.
Thomas Mallon
#14. Where do your stories come from?" He asked.
"I capture them in a wicker basket as they flutter from the night sky," I replied. "They drift to earth from a place between the right of the North Star and to the left of reality.
Chad B. Hanson
#15. My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
Alan Bradley
#16. Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything ... .but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco
Josh Stern
#17. A new lover. Fresh knowledge and a virgin body to paw. Shopping together for wicker furniture in the mall. Visiting the lingerie store. Picking out matching shotguns.
Kenneth J. Harvey
#18. Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.
Wallace Stegner
#19. You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were light, I thought, and I thought how good it was of you to do this. We'd never touched before.
Donald Barthelme
#20. Oh, my dear sweet baby Jesus in a wicker basket.
-Sydney
Colleen Hoover
#21. My Date was waiting for me at the kitchen door, ears perked, tail wagging and bits of wicker clinging to his nose and mouth
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
Sammi Carter
#22. I'm going to Hell in a basket
Weaved in from my sins
Like wicker
With little Wiccan ties
As if I'm a witch
Accused
Matthew Little
#23. Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.
Julie Klam
#24. I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.
Cecily Strong
#25. 'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.
Christopher Lee
#26. A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
Octavio Paz
#27. I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.
Christopher Lee
#28. If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
Erma Bombeck
#29. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.
Elif Batuman
#30. Jesus fucking shit cock sucking whore in a wicker basket
Jay McLean
#31. Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket
Andrew Lennon
#32. The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.
Roger Wicker
#33. Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.
Tom Wicker
#34. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.
Roger Wicker
#35. She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less.
Christine Wicker
#36. He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.
Tom Wicker
#37. We must see people not as object but as beings, with souls and with bodies through which they express their souls.
Kate Wicker
#38. Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.
Roger Wicker
#39. Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Roger Wicker
#40. We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food.
Kate Wicker
#41. You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.
Kate Wicker
#42. Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.
Tom Wicker
#43. Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
Roger Wicker
#44. One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Roger Wicker
#45. The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.
Kate Wicker
#46. Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
Tom Wicker
#47. Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
Roger Wicker
#48. Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.
Tom Wicker
#49. We are what we are, and life is what it is, but God is bigger than any cross we bear
Kate Wicker
#50. We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we'll fill our hearts.
Kate Wicker
#51. Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
Roger Wicker
#52. More Americans are working today than at any time in history.
Roger Wicker
#53. To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.
Tom Wicker
#54. We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.
Kate Wicker
#55. Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
Roger Wicker
#56. You are a human being, not a human body.
Kate Wicker
#57. Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
Roger Wicker
#58. If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.
Kate Wicker
#59. You are kind, caring and intrinsically good. I am hateful, vengeful and intrinsically evil.
E.L. Wicker
#60. [it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism ... The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then ... It may be that we are all just older and wiser.
Roger Wicker
#61. And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.
Roger Wicker
#62. But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
Roger Wicker
#63. It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.
Roger Wicker
#64. There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
Tom Wicker
#65. Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
Roger Wicker
#66. The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
Roger Wicker
#67. The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
Roger Wicker
#68. We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
Roger Wicker
#69. If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom ... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.
Tom Wicker
#70. It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.
Tom Wicker
#71. Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.
Roger Wicker
#72. We've been told prettiness will somehow make us better - and more loved. Do we really want to bear the mark of physical beauty? Or do we just want to be loved?
Kate Wicker
#73. Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
Roger Wicker
#74. Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
Roger Wicker
#75. Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.
Tom Wicker
#76. It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.
Christine Wicker
#78. It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
Roger Wicker
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
