
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of wrap, wrapping, likeness, doing.
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
Letter to Catherine L. Moore (7 February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 407-408
Non-Fiction, Letters
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
The Finest Story in the World http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/fineststory.html (1893).
Other works
Source: Many Inventions
Context: When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
Interview: Tom Kenny talks voicing SpongeBob Squarepants and 'Mr. Show' http://www.metro.us/entertainment/interview-tom-kenny-talks-voicing-spongebob-squarepants-and-mr-show/zsJoba---UspN3mmMXb2BE (February 2, 2015)
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”
Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf, given at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, 29 Sep 2002.
Speeches
Source: War Talk
BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html, transcript of the "First Month of War" speech https://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/churchills-ww2-speech-to-the-nation-october-1939/).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Context: I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Source: The Bronze Horseman
1860s, Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
Letter to the Chancellors of the European Universities. Collected Works, vol. 1, pt. 2 (1956, trans. 1968).
“You and me know, this is a wrap.”
As quoted in "Nate Diaz discusses win over Conor McGregor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6NkqFPOyY (5 March 2016), UFC on FOX, FOX
Exchange between Judge Victor Montiglio and Pinochet (November 16, 2005), quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
2000s
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (6 February 1999).
1990s
2013, Fifth State of the Union Address (February 2013)
How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) Reform Judaism http://reformjudaismmag.net/03fall/comics.shtml (2003)
2015, Remarks after the Umpqua Community College shooting (October 2015)
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
Source: Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction
Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.”
Source: Magic Rises
“We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.”
Source: Stay
Source: Simply Irresistible
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another…”
Tolstoy's Diaries (1985) edited and translated by R. F. Christian. London: Athlone Press, Vol 2, p. 512
Context: People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark (the truth) everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.
“Are you a peice of Saran Wrap?
No
Well then why are you acting so clingy?”
Source: The Clique Ah-mazing Collector's Gift Set
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.”
Source: The Radleys
“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”
Source: Between The Tides
Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”
“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”
Source: Finding Noel
“It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.”
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
Source: Bag of Bones
“Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.”
Source: Invincible