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  • Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

    Song: Sleep Through The Static, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008
  • It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

    Past   Sheep   Wool  
  • I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

    Freedom   Party   Black  
  • Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.392, Bantam
  • Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

    Enemy   Democracy   Wool  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

    Pigs   Wool   Littles  
    "Putin: NSA whistleblower Snowden is in Moscow airport". Speech on an official visit to Finland, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.
  • One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

    Fans   Wool   Fiction  
    "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.
  • The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.

    School   Science   Views  
  • Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

    Purple   Mind   Wool  
    St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

  • And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

    "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.
  • If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

    Sheep   Wool   Would Be  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

    Iron   Ivory   Medicine  
  • Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14
  • Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

    Baby   Sleep   Wool  
  • I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

    Sorry   Hard Work   Mean  
    Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

    Eye   President   Wool  
  • The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!

    Stars   Twilight   Moon  
    Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.135
  • The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

    Fate   Wool   Clue  
    John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.296
  • The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

  • I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

    Eye   Thinking   Wool  
  • These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

    Lakes   Hands   Jewels  
  • Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

    Believe   Evil   Giving  
  • It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

    Sheep   Giving   Enemy  
    Gary Larson (1995). “Gary Larson's the curse of Madame "C": a far side collection”
  • Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

    Wool   Ninety   China  
  • We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

    Mother   Teacher   Father  
  • There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.

    Philosophy   Order   Two  
  • Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

    Mother   Father   School  
  • The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

    Heart   Wool   Jewelry  
  • I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

    Wool   Leather   Silk  
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