Linen Quotes - Page 2

• Los antiguos carecían de muchas de las comodidades de la vida que han sido inventadas o mejoradas por el progreso de la industria; y la abundancia de vidrio y lino ha difundido más comodidades reales entre las naciones modernas de Europa que las que los senadores de Roma podían obtener de todos los refinamientos del lujo pomposo o sensual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Verdad, Lujo, Gafas

  Edward Gibbon (1846). "Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano", p.106

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• We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.

  Howard Mansfield

  Restoration, Saving, May

  Howard Mansfield (2001). “The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”, p.12, UPNE

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• Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Black And White, Hands, Office

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.392, Bantam

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• Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.95, Anchor

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• Me voy a un hotel e intento llegar antes de las cinco y media de la mañana. Guardo un diccionario, un diccionario de sinónimos, una biblia, una baraja de cartas, una botella de jerez y montones de blocs de notas adhesivas amarillas. Me encierro seis o siete horas. Tengo un acuerdo con el hotel por el que nadie puede entrar en mi habitación. Al cabo de tres o cuatro meses, puede que pasen notas por debajo de mi puerta del tipo: "Querida Sra. Angelou, por favor, permítanos cambiar las sábanas. Creemos que se están enmoheciendo". Probablemente sea verdad. Les dejo entrar si prometen no tocar nada más que la cama.

  Maya Angelou

  Mañana, Pensamiento, Amarillo

  Fuente: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

  Perry Brass

  People, Fake, World

  Perry Brass (1998). "El amante de mi alma: una búsqueda del éxtasis y la sabiduría", p.27, Perry Brass

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• ¿No es el vino viejo el más sano, las viejas piñas las más sabrosas, la madera vieja la más brillante, el lino viejo el más blanco? Los viejos soldados, amores, son los más seguros, y los viejos amantes los más sanos.

  John Webster

  Wine, Soldier, Vineyards

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

  George Clooney

  Children, Men, Israel

  United Nations Security Council Address on Darfur, delivered 14 September 2006, New York City

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• My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Worry, Boots

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Angel, Desire, Gold

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• Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Song, Eye

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1114, Delacorte Press

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• Hablo como su guía nativo de la misteriosa tribu llamada los ingleses. El código de vestimenta lo es todo. Puedes ser un nazi con carné, puedes pagar a gigolós para que coman ñoquis de tu ombligo y no serás puesto en la picota... siempre y cuando nunca, jamás, lleves lino con tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Largo, Vestidos, Código de vestimenta

  Kathy Lette (2012). "Atracción fetal", p.48, Random House.

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• Algunos de nosotros pensamos: "¡Si hubiera estado allí! Qué rápido habría ayudado al Niño. Habría lavado su ropa. ¡Qué feliz habría sido yendo con los pastores a ver al Señor acostado en el pesebre! ¿Por qué no lo hacemos ahora? Tenemos a Cristo en nuestro prójimo.

  Martin Luther

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

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• O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

  Thomas Hood

  Sister, Mother, Men

  La canción de la camisa" (1843)

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• El oro y la plata no son más que mercancías, lo mismo que el paño o el lino; y la nación que menos compra y más vende debe tener siempre más dinero.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Money, Gold, Silver

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.361

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• Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

  Sandra Gulland

  Children, Daggers, Littles

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Years, Purple

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• We should wash our dirty linen at home.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Should

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• To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Political, Rags

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

  John C. Reilly

  Jobs, Fun, Father

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned

  Drake

  Humble, Pimp, Dry

  Song: Paris Morton Music

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• I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Aviation, Predictions

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• Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for 5 million murdered people and the guilt for the atrocities. But I see in this trial endless other things brought out and I have the feeling that in the shadow of the guilt of these murders the German people shall be considered guilty of everything, and in the shadow of this guilt the Americans, English, French, and especially the Russians will want to get rid of their own dirty linen.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Dirty, People, Feelings

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 71), 2004.

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Lying

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