Presents Quotes
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!
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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.
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I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Our children need our presence, not our presents.
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Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
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My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'
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But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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It is what it is. You have to take advantage when opportunity presents itself.
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But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
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An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
