Deborah Harkness

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

American Novelist

Rupert Everett

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.

English Actor

Jerome Charyn

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

American Author

George Combe

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

American Educator

Jack Nicklaus

I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

American Golfer

Harry Houdini

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Hungarian Entertainer

Joan Hickson

I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.

English Actress

Britt Ekland

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

Swedish Actress

Torrey DeVitto

American Actress

Grace Gummer

Shawls have cultural significance in many countries and can symbolize heritage or status.

Cultural Garment

Shawls are suitable for formal events like weddings and can add elegance to attire.

Occasion Specific

Shawls can be made from various materials affecting their appearance, from wool to lace.

Material Matters

In literature, shawls can symbolize secrecy or a character's hidden motives.

Symbolic Meaning

A shawl can imply comfort or solace, representing a form of emotional covering.

Emotional Nuance

Shawls can create vivid imagery, setting a mood or foreshadowing in stories.

Imagery and Mood

 national television playing in an orchestra in kabul kiana explained that when the sisters came home to visit their parents they had to cloak themselves in chat ors large shawls or burqas to obscure their identities they do go back once in a while very rarely but they put

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 also buy this beautiful shawl that you have on your store front right so we have to really really make that shift super fast wait so who who could they have been like who who were you afraid these uniformed people were they were from the government

Going Undercover to Save...

 And as I sat contemplating what to say, a woman approached in a black shawl and black robe. I stepped from my car and said "Shalom," and identified myself, and she told me that her husband Abed would be home from work in four hours.

In search for the man...

 unprovoked with their war clubs with shawl skull shattering blows that they would deliver with their clubs so the head bashers are on one side of the river and the arrow people with their poison tipped arrows on the other side

The Unconquered:...

 was during my commute to college. I did not have access to computers, so I had to borrow a college junior's cell phone. As a woman, I could not be seen with a cell phone, so I used to huddle his phone under my shawl

How education helped me...

 She had left her shawl out overnight and won the contest by simply wringing out the fabric over her glass. Proud of all his students, and loving them like his own children, Lok Ta surprised all three with gifts.

The Cambodian myth of...

 through the mark spy hippo glimpses an extraordinary sight fish are shadowing the hippos every move these are Barb's they usually feed on the riverbed but when the hip was appear they shawl around them

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 Barefoot, careful on the slick slate slabs, I need no light, I know the way, stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair, spread a shawl, and sit,

4 Powerful Poems about...

 they shawl around them as spy hippo moves closer it's clear that their skin is a maze of cuts and scratches these fight marks easily become infected and parasites can also invade

The 'Beauty' Regime of...

 fish are shadowing the hippos every move these are Barb's they usually feed on the riverbed but when the hip was appear they shawl around them as spy hippo