Wrapping Quotes - page 2

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. (Al Capp)
I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well-oiled machine. 'Cause it was the last season, and they were wrapping up a lot of stuff because they knew at that point that they weren't coming back. There seemed to be kind of a freedom, and certainly the cast had a great amount of camaraderie. View quote
Carrie Preston
There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan. View quote
Eugene Jarecki
I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team. View quote
Gary Speed
I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us. View quote
Malorie Blackman
What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world. View quote
Matthew Gray Gubler
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. View quote
Tom Waits
Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. View quote
Henry Rollins
We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool. View quote
Henry Steele Commager
I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck. (Maria V. Snyder)
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. View quote
Matt Taibbi
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away. View quote
Sarah Dessen
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
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. View quote
Bono
An empire can do a lot of damage as it flails deeper into quicksand. Wrapping ourselves in flags does not pull us free. Permanent war justifies permanent unquestioned dominance by military and industrial interests. View quote
Paul Glover