Umbrella quotes
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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
-- Al Smith -
Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!
-- Conrad Aiken -
He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.
-- Daniel Handler -
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
-- Knut Hamsun -
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.
-- Margaret Whiting -
We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella
-- Omar Torrijos -
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I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.
-- Penelope Cruz -
Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,
-- Rachel Caine -
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
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I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter
-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -
Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.
-- Sarah Palin -
Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.
-- Stephanie Perkins -
It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
-- Sting -
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
-- Tablo -
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
-- Walter Gropius -
An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.
-- Xavier Forneret -
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
-- Zubin Mehta -
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CNTRL is about letting people know that not everyone fits under the 'EDM' umbrella; not creatively or even personally.
-- Loco Dice -
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!
-- Fan Bingbing
