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What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'? -- Mary Wakefield
It's always refreshing to step into another time. -- Diane Lane
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket. -- Sara Genn
It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else. -- Marion Cotillard
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it. -- Will Wright
Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar. -- William Monahan
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. -- Jerry Saltz
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin
There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing. -- Alanis Morissette
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. -- Asa Gray
It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think. -- Pauline Hanson
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. -- D. H. Lawrence
That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. -- Nicholas Sparks
[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient. -- Katie MacAlister
Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average. -- Ryan Reynolds
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. -- Ray Bradbury
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! -- Leo Buscaglia
The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful. -- Ben Weinman
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them. -- Sloane Crosley
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart. -- A. B. Simpson
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on. -- A. A. Milne
In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need. -- Helen Steiner Rice
Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it. -- Laurie Helgoe
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles. -- Mark Zupan
It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together. -- Kate Mulgrew
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing. -- Ben Whishaw
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. -- Jami Attenberg
In the hot summer months, popsicles are a perfect way to cool down while enjoying a delicious, fruity treat. Frozen, refreshing, mouth-friendly candy on a stick cannot get any better... or can it? -- Marcus Samuelsson
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring. -- Steve Antin
I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin. -- Becki Newton
And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam. -- Julie Burchill
Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter. -- Gretchen Rubin
There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only time I eat breakfast. Fish, eggs, soup, salad, veggies; all in the tiniest bites. It's a full meal, but it's so refreshing. -- David Chang
Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach. -- Alan King
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. -- John Sarbanes
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing. -- Jenna Elfman
I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is fun, and everyone is in a good mood; they are happy, and they let it go. I like that. It is refreshing to me. -- Kelly Carlson
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours. -- Jakob Bohme
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. -- Paul Ryan
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones. -- Alan Jackson
Spring time is a refreshing time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Art is the refreshing source of existence. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
One person's crazy is another person's refreshing. -- Mary-Louise Parker
Reading the word of God is so refreshing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness -- Glenn Hoddle
There's something very refreshing about being on stage. -- Paul Reiser
I have an eye for new and refreshing talent, -- Liberace
Mediate on Scriptures. It is refreshing to the soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is. -- T. M. Brenner
How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up. -- Jon Stewart
I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing. -- Aurora Guerrero
There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis. -- Barack Obama
The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water. -- Kevin DeYoung
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears. -- Siobhan Fahey
I hope you like Guiness, Sir. I find it a refreshing alternative to food. -- Richard Dean Anderson
What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you. -- Alexis Soyer
I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things. -- Jesse Bradford
It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward. -- James Patterson
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven't changed. -- Richelle Mead
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. -- Nhat Hanh
It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble. -- Nina Garcia
Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something. -- Biz Stone
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. -- Henry David Thoreau
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, -- Gary Haugen
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? -- Neil Gaiman
Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters. -- Paul of the Cross
I like doing the comedic episodes because it's refreshing. I enjoy doing comedic things and physical comedy. It's fun. -- Emily Deschanel
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. -- Frederick Rolfe
I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me." (p.531) -- Storm Constantine
It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites. -- Jim Goad
Most women are motivated so I act accordingly But this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me -- Drake
Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm. -- John C. Reilly
I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done. -- Song Kang-Ho
I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing. -- Todd English
But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice. -- Joel Hodgson
Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done -- Matthew West
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all. -- Israel Zangwill
Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent. -- Leatrice Eiseman
I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have. -- Lenny Kravitz
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing. -- Richard Harmon
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal. -- Charles Baudelaire
I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance. -- Sylvester Stallone
One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. -- Mark Weiser
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh. -- Teresa Palmer
The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? -- Neil Gaiman
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next. -- John Donne
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too -- W. Somerset Maugham
Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that. -- Billy Graham
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors. -- Kajol
Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maÃ®tre, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy. -- Longchenpa
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. -- Charles Spurgeon
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. -- Adrian Edmondson
Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything. -- Christina Milian
The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery. -- Mary Oliver
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. -- Sean Bean
I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing. -- Patrick Fabian
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding. -- Thomas a Kempis
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness. -- Richard G. Scott
During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know. -- Criss Jami
If my skin is feeling a little dry, I use La Mer face cream. I also love their Eye Concentrate. It goes on with this little metal ball thing that's very refreshing. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. -- Ted Allen
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating. -- Morgan Freeman
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health. -- Ann Radcliffe
President Trump is bringing a very candid - and direct type of leadership to the White House. And in conversations with leaders around the world, frankly, I think they all find it very refreshing. -- Mike Pence
The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace. -- Jay Leno
"¦their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. -- John Muir
Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. -- Terry Pratchett
My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing. -- James Blake
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven. -- Jeremy Taylor
I'll say something else about Christine O'Donnell. You ready? I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute. I think she's kind of refreshing. She's a conservative. What's the problem? -- Rush Limbaugh

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