#strip

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! ↗

— Michael Flanders

#back #been #comforting #half #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

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#down #focus #half #hard #i

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good. ↗

— Courtney Love

#been #competitive #good #gotten #last

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. ↗

— William Manchester

#boudoir #could #forth #guessed #her

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#called #center #collective #collective consciousness #consciousness

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #defending #iraq #opposed #patriots

At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#boldness #could #critical #i #like

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#exactly #less #lots #more #reviewers