Famous quotes containing the words powder, glass and/or beads:
“Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
—George Axelrod (1922)
“It is difficult to read. The page is dark.
Yet he knows what it is that he expects.
The page is blank or a frame without a glass
Or a glass that is empty when he looks.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)