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  • Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.

    Nature   Autumn   Land  
    Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney.

  • The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

    Heart   Eyelashes   Play  
  • You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.

    Names   Ruffles   Calling  
  • She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

  • Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

    Eye   Character   Men  
    Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.132, e-artnow
  • [President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

    Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9
  • I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

  • All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

    Knowledge   Men   Wife  
    Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.76
  • It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

    Fall   Gay   Pride  
    Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr
  • The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop's hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: "This one guy, and just this one guy, he's so good, he transcends his trivial idiom and elevates himself into our significant one."

    Awards   Hair   Guy  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

    Ruffles   Feathers   Ifs  
  • You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

    "New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Most Memorable Quotes About Being A Woman In Tech" by Britney Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
  • I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

    Color   Ruffles   Doe  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

  • Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

    Night   Wind   Ruffles  
    William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.411
  • I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

    People   Ruffles   Taught  
  • In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

    "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.
  • The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.89
  • Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

    Swans   Ruffles   Cold  
    'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 434
  • Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

    Dream   Cat   Daddy  
    Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage
  • Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

    Hurt   Healthy   Ruffles  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.58
  • Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

    Rags   Ruffles   Rogues  
  • The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

    Drama   People   Tudors  
  • I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

    Flower   Design   Ruffles  
  • Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

    John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”
  • How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

    Jewels   Ruffles   Steel  
    Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

  • Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

    Jobs   Ruffles   Reason  
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