Scarves quotes

Scarves

22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Steve Martin
Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer

"...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs."

Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist

"As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf."

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"Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was"

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Debbie Reynolds Actress, Singer
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"I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf."

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