Best Wrapping Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.”

Self Seems Attention Consciousness Awareness Fields Ignorance Buddhism Ultimate Wrapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.”

Giving Poetry Is Wrapping

Author:Mark Haddon

“In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.”

May Hands Forget Tree Gratitude Midst Shopping Arranging Wrapping

Book:Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life

Source: Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life

“Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.”

Doe Art Suits Inferiors Armor Postmodernism Facilitate Rationalize Wrapping Suits Of Armor

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”

Process Religious Performances Shoes Ritual Ballet Preparing Wrapping New Shoes

Author:Natalie Portman

“Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.”

Humans Authority Resources Responsible Firm Department Iron Fists Jane Gloves Human Resources Velvet Wrapping

Author:Alain de Botton

“When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.”

Thinking Heart Pain Streets Ready Senses Noise Leap Hug Harmonious Absorbing Wrapping Bodily Pain Wrapping Up

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.”

Justice Principles Revenge Cloaks Wrapping

Book:Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

“Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.”

Helping Kids Tough Help Me Hockey Orange Nhl Wrapping Peeling Christmas Present

Author:Brendan Morrison

“The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.”

Quality Food Cooking Culinary Thinker Leafs Benevolence Barrels Vines Wrapping Great Thinkers

Author:Emmanuel des Essarts

“satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.”

Reality Core Satire Exaggeration Wrapping

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.”

Children Home Beautiful Father Strange Paper Decided Died Symbols Meat Germany Score Village Covered Geese Butchers Wrapping Small Villages

Book:The Secret Lives of People in Love

Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love

“There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.”

People Trying Wrapping

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.”

Way Mind Law Race Becoming Europe Court University Borders Prophet Cracks Factories Frozen Minerals Wrapping Law Courts Embalming

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.”

World Environment Food Permanent Uncertain Disposable Wrapping

Author:Irena Chalmers

“We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.”

People Ifs World Done Numbers Company Leader Influence Example Products Vote Responsible Refuse Enormous Global Warming Voters Plastic Wraps Wrapping

Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

“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.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.”

Long Important Actors Bits Half Five One Thing Months Reader Starting Very Good Preparation Useless Revolutionary Wrapping

Author:Kate Winslet

“Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.”

Giving Individual Race Fashion Style Independent Selling Temporary Wrapping

Author:Annie Lennox

“We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.”

“I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around a character and bringing him to life. I love a lot of different genres. I'm not a big horror guy by any means but I love the challenge. But the fifties and sixties is where I feel the most comfortable.”

Thinking Feels Mean Different Character Bigs Guy Challenges Acting Horror Comfortable Creating Genre Sixty Wrapping Different Genres

Author:Drew Waters

“The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.”

Knows Ends Sometimes Moving Know How Scary Moving Forward Sequence Animation Wrapping Scary Things Bluffs Wrapping Up

Author:Dan Scanlon

“Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.”

Self Wrapping Individuation

Author:Carl Jung

“For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.”

Thinking Feels Mind Sometimes Wanted Musician Baseball Very Good Stores Pitcher Wrapping Christmas Present Baseball Pitcher

Author:John Malkovich

“A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.”

“You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.”

Humans Stills Moving Century Painting Walking Activity Speed Take Time 20th Century Human Activity Wrapping Wrapping Up

Author:Joe Bradley

“We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.”

Film Process Seeing Woods Forests Goodbye Saying Goodbye Wrapping

Author:Ellen Page

“I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Next Church Five Grace Four Figures Right Now Series Come Up Good Ideas Pastor Sermons Elders January Wrapping Highlighting Wrapping Up

Author:Max Lucado

“Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.”

People Ifs Kind Littles Wanted Certain Names Causes Bits Responsibility Serious Little Bit Entertainment Statements Meant To Be Provoking Ambiguous Were Meant To Be Wrapping Cabaret

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“John Logan was kind of wrapping up - "Well, thanks for coming in..." - and I thought, "Oh, God, this is over and I'm out of here, and I really don't want to leave."So I said, "Can I ask you a question?" He said, "Sure." "What movie do you think you've seen more than any other movie?" And he said, "Wow, let me think about that. I guess probably The Searchers." And I said, "Well, oddly, that's the movie I've seen more than any other movie." And I wasn't just BS-ing. It's true. It's my favorite movie.”

Thinking Want Wells Kind Said Asks Let Me My Favorite Thanks Wow Wrapping Searchers Wrapping Up

Author:Brent Spiner

“I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.”

I Can Shows Havens Faults Shooting Wrapping Wrapping Up

Author:Zach Anner

“I'll tell you how you know when you're on something good: when everybody starts to tear up when they're leaving, when they're wrapping for the season. You know, when you say, "All right, we're done with McGillicuddy. That's a wrap for McGillicuddy!" And everybody applauds, but everybody's sad, because McGillicuddy's going to be gone! You know, it's like family going off to college or war. You have this intimate relationship with these people, and then - bam! - they're gone.”

People War Done Tears College Leaving Intimate Wrapping

Author:Louie Anderson

“One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don't like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour - all work. If two hours - all. I don't want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own - quick, quick.”

People Hours Training Gym Wasting Time Wrapping

Author:Joshua Clottey

“When I talk about people wrapping themselves in the flag and hiding behind Jesus - that's an anti-intellectual thing to do in the political process, because legally, allegedly we have a separation between church and state. That's a legal precedent that's never observed. When people are trying to do something that's not in your best interest, they will wrap it in the flag and hide behind Jesus, which is a corrupt thing to do.”

People Trying Political Jesus Interest Church Separation Hiding Church And State Wrapping

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.”

Mind Littles Lying Warm Attraction Command Ease Admiration Good Food Wrapping Aristocratic

Book:Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life

Source: Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life

“I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.”

Ideas Bigs America Lying Tears Insects Hood Crawling Facade Wrapping Cadillacs

Author:Tom Waits

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

Inspirational Giving Feelings Teacher Expression Gratitude Grateful Appreciation Thanks Thoughtful Be Grateful Thanksgiving Thank You Thankfulness Thankful Being Thankful Appreciative Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Wrapping Thank You Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Inspirational Gratitude Thankful For You Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thankful Words Of Gratitude Love Gratitude Thank You Appreciation Thanksgiving Inspirational Grateful For You Thanksgiving Thank You Grateful Thankful Good Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Love Grateful Inspirational Gratitude For Work Thankfulness For Love Grateful Thanks Gratitude To Others Feeling Grateful Great Thanksgiving Spiritual Gratitude Joy And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thoughts Being Grateful For Life Blessed And Thankful Daily Gratitude Showing Gratitude

Author:William Arthur Ward

“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”

Years Difficult Christmas Perceive Wrapping

Book:The SECOND TREE from the CORNER

Source: The SECOND TREE from the CORNER

“Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.”

Giving Trying Bigs Past Rocks Arms Kissing Ridiculous Absurd Ducks Rock N Roll Wrapping

Author:Bono

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.”

Knows Real Hard Body Night Black Dark Space Sky Objects Huge Shapes Red Clouds Swamps Wrapping Pears

Author:Margaret Atwood

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Soul Winning Virtue Sweet Senses Stealing Things To Do Like Her Bonus Wrapping

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.”

Mind Said Reading Difficult Size Description Insufficient Wrapping

Author:Daniel Handler

“There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took his hands and pulled him to her, wrapping her legs around his torso. She could feel the sobs in both of them, but quiet, silenced by the kiss. They could escape inside each other.”

Feels Said Hands Baby Quiet Kissing Legs Staring Pockets Valleys Wrapping Torso

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.”

Lying Parent Born Couple Paper Cancer Dinner Stuck Christmas Disability Cake Candle Supermarkets My Birthday Wrapping Leftovers Wrapping Paper Day After Christmas

Book:You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

“Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.”

“Then you would hold me up, wouldn't you." He traced over her features with his fingertips. And as he did, for some strange reason, he felt the arms of infinity wrapping around them both, holding them close... linking them forever. Yes, he mouthed. I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.”

Reason Felt Forever Mines Strange Arms Lovers Dear Features Infinity Brotherhood Fingertips Hold Me Wrapping Black Dagger Brotherhood

Book:Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct tape would've worked either.]”

Thinking Magic Needed Extras Tape Pillow Wrapping Sadie Duct Tape

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

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