When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.
I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long. " But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it. . . They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.
To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.
I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.
The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.