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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. -- Loretta Lynn
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. -- Marya Mannes
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in. -- Charles Manson
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. -- Jeff Buckley
Gifts have ribbons, not strings. -- Vanna Bonta
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. -- Andre Breton
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. -- Robert Benchley
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. -- Frank Zappa
If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago. -- George H. Morris
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. -- Anzia Yezierska
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. -- Billy Carter
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. -- Dennis Rodman
She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady -- Shannon Hale
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake. -- Darynda Jones
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. -- Howard Dean
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell. -- Northrop Frye
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. -- Jeff MacNelly
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again. -- Tom Waits
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes. -- Romulus Whitaker
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers. -- Jandy Nelson
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.' -- Brad Holland
When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment. -- Alexandra Stoddard
We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana. -- Bobby Jindal
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces. -- Joanna Lumley
I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters. -- Seanan McGuire
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. -- Harry Crosby
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy. -- Greg Anderson
The Beatles were no trouble... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standing on the seats screaming, nothing broken. -- Sid Bernstein
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. -- Tommy Hilfiger
One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away. -- Cheryl Hines
If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer. -- Tom Wolfe
I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At the Evian tournament in 2010, in which I came in second, I wore baby blue on a Sunday. And ever since then, I've worn it every Sunday. Puma sponsors me, so I wear all their outfits in bright colors. I wear matching hair ribbons, too. -- Lexi Thompson
Gifts have ribbons, not strings -- Vanna Bonta
Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon -- V.C. Andrews
Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon -- V.C. Andrews
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? -- George Orwell
Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart. -- Flavia Cacace
The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings! -- Dr. Seuss
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. -- Suzanne Collins
He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck -- Ilona Andrews
History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. -- Orson Scott Card
A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. -- Eileen Granfors
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg. -- Jo Baker
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. -- William Strunk, Jr.
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views. -- Susan Faludi
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. -- Oscar Wilde
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence. -- Oriana Fallaci
I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds. -- Cecilia Llompart
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded. -- George Carlin
Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted. -- Theodor Herzl
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him. -- John Locke
We should be used to it, Tatiana reasonsThere have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails. -- Sarah Miller
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat -- Don Marquis
I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees. -- Lauren Slater
I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs. -- George W. Bush
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn. -- Saul Bellow
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind. -- Lauren Oliver
Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire. -- Seth MacFarlane
I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons. -- Lisa Ann Sandell
[Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when you're with him. I've played golf with him twice, oh, probably 10, 15 years ago. -- Michael Bloomberg

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