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  • There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

    Kings   Flower   Warrior  
  • I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

    White   Wish   Dabs  
  • When we’re home sometimes, she’ll put on mascara. And sometimes I’ll let her wear something out to dinner – but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she’ll feel.

    Father   Home   Dabs  
    "Gwyneth Paltrow: My Family Makes Me Feel Beautiful". Interview with Julie Jordan, people.com. April 24, 2013.
  • When I was shooting a movie in Montreal, it was freezing. If you take a little bit of Aquaphor and dab it on your face, it keeps your skin looking fresh. I dubbed it Aqua For Everything.

    Aqua   Skins   Dabs  
  • We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone

  • No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

    Dabs   Want   Paint  
  • I carry McCormick’s Pure Vanilla [in my purse] — the baking kind — and dab it on my neck… Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put it on and four different guys were like, ‘You smell amazing!’

    Men   Smell   Guy  
    "Jennifer Love Hewitt: I Use Vanilla Extract to Attract Men!". www.usmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.
  • It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

    Summer   Senior   Dirty  
    Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books
  • You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

    Dabs   Paint   Accomplish  
    William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books
  • The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

    Friendly   Dabs   Looks  
    Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
  • Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

    Girl   Ice Cream   Giving  
  • And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

    Mirrors   Dabs   Use  
  • Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

    Dabs   Mustard  
    Nigel Slater (2005). “The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater”, Gotham
  • Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.

    Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

  • Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

    Design   Dabs   Steps  
  • The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

    Boxing   Giving   Dabs  
    FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Apr 18, 2014
  • I don't really wear lip gloss often, but I do like to wear a dab of lipstick. I put a dab on my lip and mix it with some of my chapstick, and people think it's my natural color!

    Thinking   Color   People  
    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

    Oysters   Dabs   Shells  
    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.284, Simon and Schuster
  • Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

    Trying   Faces   Dodge  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

    Book   Body   Pages  
    Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.353
  • Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

    Art   Media   Dabs  
  • It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

    Wise   Book   Library  
    Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

    Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”
  • Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

    Country   War   Men  
  • Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

    Character   Power   Hands  
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