#patches

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#country #into #many #patches #shreds

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#commercial #dixie #even #fallen #heart

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#care #define #geographical #live #lousy

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#around #biological #certain #fat #go

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. ↗

— Julian Sands

#i #patches #player #school #snatches

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#eye #fetish #i #just #patches

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#away #day #done #every #every day

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#end #felt #heard #i #joined

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. ↗

— John Krasinski

#being #campus #college #day #done