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«We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.»

«The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.»

«FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof»

«It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.»

«Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.»

«A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood»

«Plaster thick, some will stick.»

«We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints»

«It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.»

«It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.»