#strip

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#curse #plenty #stripped

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#comic #comic strip #films #go #i

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#anybody #away #been #despite #i

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 M. Glaser

#big #champion #drive #first #first of all

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#back #body #called #comic #comic strip

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was. ↗

— Max Bill

#i #knowing #made #strip #without

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#down #inspiring #jones #like #me

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit. ↗

— James Dobson

#anatomy #condom #detail #education #especially

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#acting #aim #approximate #artifice #away