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“Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-paced city. And you, naked with nothing but your ideas.Carrie: I get it. But, see, no matter how fast paced the city, I always manage to get my clothes on before I leave the apartment.”
Sex and the City
“Cover a lot of ground”
Proverb
“There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.”
Desmond Morris
“And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.”
Bible
“MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But "mousquetaire" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter.”
Ambrose Bierce
“And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.”
“Steal a bell with one's ears covered”
Chinese Proverbs
“Squirrel-like she covers her back with her tail.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.”
John Vinocur
