Scraped Sticks

Famous quotes containing the words scraped and/or sticks:

“I went to a literary gathering once.... The place was filled with people who looked as if they had been scraped up out of drains. The ladies ran to draped plush dresses—for Art; to wreaths of silken flowerets in the hair—for Femininity; and, somewhere between the two adornments, to chain-drive pince-nez—for Astigmatism. The gentlemen were small and somewhat in need of dusting.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“A man is like a suntan: at first he sticks to a woman, then he fades away.”
—Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)