Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
– James Joyce
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- If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. – Virginia Woolf
- Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck – Pearl S Buck
- Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers. – Michael Dirda
- My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions. – Zadie Smith
- I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful. – Amy Rachel Peterson
- I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds. – Cecilia Llompart
- Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. – Hilary Mantel
- Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats. – Nick Harkaway
- I was expected to reach for those plump breasts by now, but I was still busy window-shopping, browsing through the scene of my life. – Nikhil Bhardwaj
- Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
- The razor bumps and the stretch marks will let you know adulthood charges a fee. – Byron SogieThomas
- Focke’s razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles. – Kevin Focke
- The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end. – Priya Ardis
- Anyone who ever makes you the slightest bit uncomfortable, Breanna, you tell one of us. You’re with Razor, which means you’re family. – Katie McGarry
- A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the ????y will follow. – Helen Ellis
- Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh. – Aubrey Dark
- His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act. – Robert Girardi
- The answer is they didn’t. They aren’t here, Razor. They never were it’s just us. It’s always been just us. – Rick Yancey
- shave you mind with occam’s razor everyday – Paul Grimsley
- The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor’s edge for life to exist – Sunday Adelaja
- We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor’s edge. – Rick Yancey
- She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. – Amy Efaw
- The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. – W Somerset Maugham
- I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin. – Madeleine Kuderick
- If you needed revenge, you’ve got it. Every minute that I’m with you knowing that you’re not mine is like hydrochloric acid in a razor cut. – Connie Bailey
- Mirror mirror on the wall,Show me the one who can conquer it all – Anamika Mishra
- It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk
- It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hallWhere I wander every day.Echo beauty, and you’ll stay. – Richelle E Goodrich
- ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough-”see point one. – Douglas Adams
- Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all. – Gautama Buddha
- Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. – Aberjhani
- When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- While looking into the mirror, you are saying to yourself: I am the best. Your own reflection makes you forget the only presence in the mirror. – Viorica Dragotel
- Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror — its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again. – Vera Nazarian
- Proud people have a mirror, the objects in that mirror is rebellion, A wise advice is often seen by them as controlling, Let them be. – Oluseyi Akinbami
- She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. – Neil Gaiman
- If Gratitude were a tree in a Bountiful orchard…Grace would be it’s Seed bearing fruit. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
- The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them. – John Ortberg
- We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits. – Lailah Gifty Akita