Wool Quotes

Wool Quote of the day

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

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

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

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.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

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.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

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

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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

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.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

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!

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

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.

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

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.