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  • And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league. -- Boomer Esiason
  • If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. -- Dawn French
  • A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. -- Oliver Herford
  • I'm a big fan of Kate Moss's style - no-one nails boho meets hippy chic like she does. -- Kristin Cavallari
  • Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros. -- Nolan Ryan
  • We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness. -- Rachel Zoe
  • There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon. -- Naomi Campbell
  • I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine. -- Katy Perry
  • There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss. -- Tyra Banks
  • I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home. -- Sting
  • Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. -- John Burroughs
  • I actually really love the Kate Moss Rimmel lipsticks. Sometimes I get afraid of different colours. I want to try a bright pink, but I don't want to look tacky! -- Georgia May Jagger
  • I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while. -- Sara Foster
  • I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • I think of Kate Moss whenever I think of someone who did the bridesmaid thing right. They were all in different dresses, and I love neutrals. But it's so hard to pull that together. You almost need a stylist for it. -- Christine Teigen
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  • My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea. -- Michael Smith
  • I'm the male Kate Moss. -- Nicholas Haslam
  • Moss that is concentrating on being green. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really. -- David Bailey
  • I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress. -- Pharrell Williams
  • So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss. -- Doyle Brunson
  • I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager. -- Ryan McGinley
  • I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller. -- Emma Roberts
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  • Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something. -- Nigel Barker
  • Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss -- Nick Bantock
  • I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God. -- John Bunyan
  • Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. -- Jackie Stewart
  • Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality -- Anna Wintour
  • Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. -- David Morrissey
  • I love her, but I wouldn't marry her if she was the last woman on earth [on Kate Moss -- Pete Doherty
  • I introduced myself thus: My name is Moscow Moonlove. My friends call me Moss, Cow, Moo, Moon, or Tigerpants. -- Jarod Kintz
  • She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss]. -- Nan Goldin
  • If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. -- Dawn French
  • I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights. -- Eva Mendes
  • Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career. -- Jared Harris
  • Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.' -- Dennis Miller
  • I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with. -- Twiggy
  • Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
  • I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss. -- Sebastian Horsley
  • Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone. -- Gary Cherone
  • I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life. -- Cybill Shepherd
  • Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. -- Henrietta Dumont
  • I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal. -- Stella Vine
  • My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season. -- Erykah Badu
  • I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off. -- Olivia Wilde
  • I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss. -- Lou Doillon
  • I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it. -- Abbey Clancy
  • Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.' -- Aimee Mullins
  • I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they're fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example. -- Blake Lively
  • Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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  • Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on. -- Boomer Esiason
  • The Moss of old is back! -- Randy Moss
  • People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules. -- Randy Moss
  • A rolling stone can gather no moss. -- Publilius Syrus
  • One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss. -- Marc Chagall
  • I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. -- Vera Farmiga
  • He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. -- Anna Katharine Green
  • And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. -- John Keats
  • In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. -- E. O. Wilson
  • My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag. -- Joe Frazier
  • I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. -- Gail Simmons
  • Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree. -- Wayne Dyer
  • I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms. -- Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive. -- John Hay
  • The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. -- Rand Paul
  • My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look. -- Twiggy
  • Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement. -- Justin Timberlake
  • When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible. -- Mario Testino
  • At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed me with their fresh look. I still keep working with models like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, and I am still looking for new, interesting faces. Life is about discovery, and you should never stop searching. -- Mario Testino
  • There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. -- Chelsea Cain
  • It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history. -- Arthur Harry Church
  • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 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
  • Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • There is moss on the wallsand the stain of thought and failure andwaiting -- Charles Bukowski
  • Quando si sposta il cavallo alla terza mossa significa che si hanno intenzioni bellicose. -- Jean Michel Guenassia
  • There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass. -- James Thurber
  • In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country. -- Brian Jacques
  • I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. -- Anais Nin
  • Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting -- Stephanie Pearl McPhee
  • You really fucked this up, Einstein.You hate her.She grew on me. Kind of like moss. -- Katie McGarry
  • The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed. -- Farley Mowat
  • Probabilmente se Mosse avesse trovato la scritta Io uccido... tracciata col sangue, con lo stesso sangue ci avrebbe scritto sotto Anch'io... -- Giorgio Faletti
  • The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen. -- K. J. Bishop
  • Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. -- Saigy?
  • I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. -- Djuna Barnes
  • ...his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks. -- Eleanor Cameron
  • Say what? Jenks blurted outYou think those moss wipes are coming back? I wish, I mutteredI've got some serious hurt with their name on it. -- Kim Harrison
  • Am I the moss on your bark, then? Ani asked.Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionatelyYou're the mossiest girl I know. -- Shannon Hale
  • A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I want to hang from a tree the way Spanish moss hung from my father's face, like the mustache he was so embarrassed he couldn't grow. -- Jarod Kintz
  • When all thoughtsAre exhaustedI slip into the woodsAnd gatherA pile of shepherd's purse.Like the little streamMaking its wayThrough the mossy crevicesI, too, quietlyTurn clear and transparent. -- Ryokan
  • When he comes back, I'm sticking to him like moss to a stone. You're going to have to cut me off with a knife to get us separated. -- Suilan Lee
  • Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds. -- Arundhati Roy
  • In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking untilthey are finished, so by this time he was saying: Do you understandthese rights?No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk! -- L. J. Smith
  • You have tasted of death now, said the old manIs it good? It is good, said MossyIt is better than life.No, said the old man: it is only more life. -- George MacDonald
  • Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle. -- Barbara Delinsky
  • The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable. -- F.T. McKinstry
  • Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. Oograah means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it. -- Terry Pratchett
  • We shall sleep on moss for many nights, till the beasts of the body come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss,and no future, save the beasts. -- Ayn Rand
  • Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on us and the water ran black and ancient and the moss shone. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
  • A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. -- Manny Farber
  • Through the mosses bare, they have planted thorn-trees for pleasure here and there. If any man so daring as dig them up in spite, He shall find their sharpest thorns in his bed at night. -- William Allingham
  • As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work. -- James Fenton
  • I had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish moss, lost in the mystery of finding myself alive at such a time and place. -- Walker Percy
  • Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle. -- Deb Caletti
  • Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy! -- Eça De Queirós
  • Van Gogh on Christmas: And now we're slowly heading towards winter, and many dread it, but Christmas is wonderful, it's like the moss on the roofs and like the pine and the holly and the ivy in the snow. Isleworth, 10 November 1876 -- Liesbeth Heenk
  • He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled the odor of a sleeping animal. -- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
  • But in the end he was so tired and hungry that, rather than walk to Utah, he decided to take his chances in a moss-and-puffball suit on a shock pancake thrown into the air by a giant catapult. Besides, the thing was insanely alluring. -- Mark Helprin
  • If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that matched with slow irregular walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese, among the small sweet meadow-flowers and the mossy marbles. -- Henry James
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