#trunk

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#car #even #gonna #had #i

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#comes #continuous #derived #ground #leaves

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#bit #come #conception #develop #different

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#around #become #carry #corner #creature

I could tell I loved her from the moment I saw her, right after she opened the trunk, untied me, and took off my blindfold.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bound #kidnap #love #ropes #trunk

That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said... ↗

— Michael Chabon

#dead-dogs #garment-bags #suitcases #trunk-space #tubas

Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#history #trunks #home

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. ↗

— Aeschylus

#may #mighty #seed #small #trunk

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#down #elves #focused #graceful #grounded

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? ↗

— Michael Kors

#design #designers #enjoy #go #happy