#strip

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#comic #comic strip #doing #elaborate #getting

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#folk #homes #i #i think #old

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#any #body #calls #clothing #fine

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#effortless #emotionally #i #i am #nearly

The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines ↗

— Diablo Cody

#stripping #humor

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty. ↗

— Dan Coats

#allegiance #also #any #beliefs #connotation

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#been #cartoon #garry #i #many