Wrappings Quotes

#1. The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.

Charles Dudley Warner

#2. The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

Dr. Seuss

#3. Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Judith Viorst

#4. In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship them to New York, unroll them; and use their linen wrappings to make paper.

Nicholson Baker

#5. It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

Susan Patron

#6. The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

William Hope Hodgson

#7. In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

Irena Chalmers

#8. All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Mooji

#9. To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E.B. White

#10. I am your friend," Gous said. "I drank with you, didn't I?"
Kline tried to nod but nothing happened. He could see the wrappings around Gous' hand staining with blood.
"Besides," said Gous, "friendship is one thing, God another.

Brian Evenson

#11. If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze

Kamala Suraiyya Das

#12. Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

#13. Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. She lifted the small stack of books from their wrappings, stroking the soft leather cover of the top one with a forefinger that trembled with delight. Jenny loved books with the same passion her brother reserved for horses.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more.
Breathless I unwrap the package.
Never lived this day before.

Gloria Gaither

#16. I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

Laurie R. King

#17. I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

Ellen Raskin

#18. Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

Gene Veith

#19. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Carl Jung

#20. I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

Iain Glen

#21. The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

Paulo Coelho

#22. The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly.

Rick Warren

#23. After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

Anne Sexton

#24. It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

Anna Louise Strong

#25. The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.

Tim Kreider