Wool Quotes

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills.
Like footsteps upon wool.

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

I don't do farm animals. Can't stand hay in your leathers? Or wool in my teeth.

Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.