Quotes by Wrinkles I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Sylvia Plath wrinkles feet tree In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success. Suzanne Collins wrinkles elderly people It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness. Taylor Schilling wrinkles bravery order Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle. Terry Pratchett wrinkles sea people Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne wrinkles envy age How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles! Thomas Eakins wrinkles skins beautiful Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea. Thomas Manss wrinkles design ideas Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. Thomas Nash wrinkles flower beauty The wrinkles in my brow, Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden wrinkles age giving My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense. Tig Notaro wrinkles age hair I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it. Tom Ford wrinkles tired cheating My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle. Tom Watson wrinkles swings golf The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. Tom Robbins wrinkles technology rose Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin Toyohiko Kagawa wrinkles yawning skins Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait. Truman Capote wrinkles white hair Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle. Victor Mature wrinkles hollywood stars "I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm." Victor Hugo wrinkles hurt friendship When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb. Victor Hugo wrinkles light grace The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Virginia Woolf wrinkles ocean sea One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? Virginia Woolf wrinkles eye ideas «23456789101112»