Burlap Quotes

• I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater.

  Rick Rude

  Real, Wrestling, Sweaters

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

  Alison Bechdel

  Water, Important, One Day

  Fuente: www.progressive.org

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• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Bags, Poverty

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• A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

  Demetri Martin

  Musical, Want

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• Coges a todos los linieros ofensivos y los metes en una bolsa de arpillera, y luego coges un bate de béisbol y golpeas la bolsa. Los estás saqueando. Los estás embolsando. Y eso es lo que haces con un quarterback.

  Diácono Jones

  Béisbol, Bates, Bolsas

  "Deacon Jones fallece a los 74 años; hizo del placaje al quarterback algo brutal y apasionante", por Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. 4 de junio de 2013.

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• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure, Miracle, Chocolate

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sorrow, Stones, Way

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• Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

  Patrick Dennis

  Chic, Mink, Said

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