Quotes of: Pair Keyword

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

Seth Shostak

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Zak Orth

But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

ASAP Rocky

I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have - about 100 in use. It sounds so bad. I splurge when I work hard.

Ashley Leggat

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

Oksana Baiul

I want to be known as the 23 year-old who is foolishly in love with a Prince she can't see. I want to rejoice while holding the rose of singleness, even when my hands bleed from its thorns. I want to resist the urge to envy the pairs growing in the m...

22 and Single: A Coming of Age Story...in Progress

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole a...

Annie on My Mind

And so, though Smith was not at all the man Knight would have deliberately chosen as a friend—or even for one of a group of a dozen friends—he somehow was his friend. Circumstance, as usual, did it all. How many of us can say of our most intimate...

A Pair of Blue Eyes

It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with forbidden midnight bowls of popcorn; all the times we rehearsed for Evaluation Day, when Hana would steal a pair of her f...

Delirium

Raymond: Of course I don't have my underwear. I'm definitely not wearing my underwear. Charlie: I gave you a fresh pair of mine to wear. Where are they? Raymond: They're in the pocket of my jacket. Here. Charlie: I don't want them back. Raymond: Thes...

Rain Man

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

A Dance with Dragons

I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser.

Firecracker

There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat.

Philip Treacy

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The Magus

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

Nearly Departed in Deadwood

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

The Namesake

Only a retard tries to cut something with the handle of a pair of scissors. Well, only a retard or a politician, but the two are synonymous.


Sleepwalking is restercise

You know what they say, Queenie: ALWAYS bet like you have a pair.

Alice in Wonderland