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  • Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

    Respect   Bags   Paper  
    Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

    Running   Bags   Paper  
  • I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

    Book   Home   Library  
  • New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

    "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.
  • Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

    Song   Horse   Crazy  
  • The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.114, Ballantine Books
  • That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

    Book   Acceptance   Necks  
  • Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

  • London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

    Apples   Tea   Sunflower  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books
  • I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

    Men   Roots   Bags  
  • You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

  • I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

  • I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

    Fall   Wine   Bags  
  • Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

    "The Monster Talent: Lady Gaga". Interview with Andy Cohen, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2013.
  • The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

    Clive James (2009). “Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James”, p.164, Pan Macmillan
  • I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

    Princess   Cheesy   Paper  
    "Brittany snow's favorite things". www.seventeen.com. August 15, 2007.
  • And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

    Love   Heart   Bags  
    David James Duncan (2015). “The River Why”, p.290, Hachette UK
  • When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

    Running   Nice   Party  
    "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.
  • At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

  • Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  • He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in years, but I recognized it — a McDonald’s Happy Meal. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. “In my day, we used animal blood,” the ghost mumbled. “It’s perfectly good enough. They can’t taste the difference.” “I will treat them with respect,” Nico said. “At least let me keep the toy,” the ghost said.

  • Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

  • I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

    Husband   Taken   Heart  
  • If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

    Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press
  • It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

    Bags   Paper   Cry  
    Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library
  • The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.

    Writing   Years   Voice  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

  • In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

    Sight   Bags   Citizens  
  • I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

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