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Quotes About Striped

I have a cat, a stripedy cat with tickling whiskers and green electric eyes. She has the softest fur in the world. When I pet her she purrs as if she has a drum near her heart.
~ Joy Harjo
With the striped umbrella and the pistachio ices?
~ Donna Tartt
shown beneath the map of the galaxy - was an outrageous confection of a planet: a striped marshmallow giant with a necklace of sugary rings, combed and braided by the resonant forces of a dozen glazed and candied moons.
~ Alastair Reynolds
cloudlets of striped and spotted smoke drifted slowly from his mouth.
~ Richard A. Lupoff
he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the base of the fruit; carefully he detached the friable, cardboard-flavoured filaments that run down its surface like meridian lines, in a word peeling his banana the way the anthropoid will forever peel his. He threw one of the filaments into the fly cage..
~ Jean Echenoz
Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The snowmen stood in bunches, in families, and the breeze generated by the car snatched at their striped scarves. Snowmen fathers and snowgirl mothers with their snowchildren and snowpuppies. Top hats were in abundance, as were corncob pipes and carrot noses. They waved the crooked sticks of their arms, saluting Mr. Manx, Wayne, and NOS4A2 as they went by. The black coals of their eyes gleamed, darker than the night, brighter than the stars.
~ Joe Hill
thick, red-and-white-striped scarf wound around his neck like a Seussian python.
~ G.M. Ford
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
~ Anne Rice
As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.
~ Matt Groening
Que seas exigente contigo misma. Que no te conformes. Viste con orgullo esos leotardos a rayas.
~ Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
ThunderClan is doomed!" "There will be a cat who burns like fire!" "Trust no one, not even your Clanmates. Too many hearts are fickle." "Beware the striped face and snapping teeth!
~ Erin Hunter
Longtail." He looked over at the striped warrior.
~ Erin Hunter
BEETAIL—dark brown striped tabby tom
~ Erin Hunter
I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
On a striped mattress in one room An old man is vanishing.
~ Sylvia Plath
The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of over-dressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of 'l'heure de l'apéritif'.
~ Ian Fleming
First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.
~ Paul Michael Glaser
Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.
~ Paul Michael Glaser
I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world;
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Big cats, little cats, striped and calico and tuxedo, sitting pert, licking their paws, lolling in puddles of sunlight.
~ Celeste Ng
Taylor adjusted her red and brown striped scarf around her neck, trying in vain to block the wind.
~ Jane Porter
Nice bra." "Israeli," said Heidi. She looked around, taking in the contents of the room. "Jesus Christ," she said. "The wallpaper's like Hendrix's pants." "I think it's satin." Vertically striped, in green, burgundy, ecru, and black.
~ William Gibson