Burlap Quotes

• It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

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  Alison Bechdel

  Water   Important   One Day  

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

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  Deacon Jones

  Baseball   Bats   Bags  

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

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  Demetri Martin

  Musical   Want   Burlap  

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• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

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  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure   Miracle   Chocolate  

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

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  Jane Hirshfield

  Sorrow   Stones   Way  

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• I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater.

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  Rick Rude

  Real   Wrestling   Sweaters  

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

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  Joe Frazier

  Mom   Brother   Hands  

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

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  Patrick Dennis

  Chic   Mink   Burlap  

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• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

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  Dorothy Day

  Mean   Bags   Poverty  

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