(154 quotes found)
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty”
Winston Churchill
“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it”
Chester Bowles
“It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”
Dave Grohl
“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.”
Luis Buñuel
“Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.”
Jack London
“If someone wants to be a cartoonist, let's see him develop his own strip instead of taking over the duties of someone else's. We've got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a cartoonist isn't good enough to make it on his own work, he has no business being in the newspaper.”
Bill Watterson
“Now strip naked and get on the probulator. [Leela]”
Futurama
“Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand, to make the Pass.”
William S. Burroughs
“My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.”
Theodore Roosevelt