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Quotes About Necklace

You're right," she said. "All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace." "Hey," Chameleon protested, as Queen Scarlet gave a shout of laughter.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Lenz tells Green how once he was at a Halloween party where a hydrocephalic woman wore a necklace made of dead gulls.
~ David Foster Wallace
Such 'rubbish,' dear child," he resumed, "is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty and fifty thousand francs, is 'rubbish' which reveals the perfection of art at the time of the siege of Troy, proving that the Etruscans were Trojan refugees in Italy.
~ Honore de Balzac
Aginisi give me tales a the sea folk. Her mama's people come a that place." She slipped the bone necklace from beneath her blouse, held it reverently, allowing him to see. "This come a them, long time back. Come over the water as they come.
~ Unknown
You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
~ Abbi Glines
They're only Scotch pearls," he said, apologetically, "but they look bonny on you." His fingers lingered a moment on my neck. "Those were your mother's pearls!" said Dougal, glowering at the necklace. "Aye," said Jamie calmly, "and now they're my wife's. Shall we go?
~ Diana Gabaldon
I was waiting at table tonight, on account of it being such a big party, and just as I was coming round with the savoury, one of the ladies went and broke her necklace by fidgeting with it at the ta ble. She thought she picked 'em all up but this one rolled under my foot and I stood on it tight until all the ladies went upstairs. I wanted to give it to you. You're a black pearl, Bertha, that's what you are and it's only right that you should have it.
~ Daisy Goodwin
Brown birds lined up on telephone wires like beads on a cheap Tijuana necklace.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
97. And now, I think, we can say: a glass bead may flush the world with color, but it alone makes no necklace. I wanted the necklace.
~ Maggie Nelson
And now, I think, we can say: a glass bead may flush the world with colour, but it alone makes no necklace. I wanted the necklace.
~ Maggie Nelson
The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering glass-and-steel towers of the loop like a wart poking through a diamond necklace.
~ John Sandford
Non sentì dolore, fu solo sorpresa nel vedere come era bello il sangue. Bello come una collana di rubini che nessun filo avrebbe potuto trattenere.
~ Margaret Millar
I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
~ Mitch Hedberg
The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.
~ Pam Farrel
My favourite object was a modest necklace from Persia. It was made of two enameled metal plaques bound together with heavy black and silver threads, like a very old and exotic scapular.' p.36
~ Patti Smith
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
~ Psalm 73:6