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Fabric Quotes:

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He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

- Anwar Sadat

source: Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

topic: Change, Reality, Fabric, Enviromental

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

- Charles Ives

source: Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

topic: Fabric, Existence

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

topic: Fabric, Salvation

It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory...

- Frederick Franck

source: "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.

topic: Fabric

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

- Geoffrey Beene

source: Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

topic: Ideas, Fabric, Things Happen

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

source: Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

topic: Ideas, Fabric, Sewing

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

- Leopoldo Lopez

source: "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

topic: Government, People, Fabric, Venezuela, Deteriorating

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

- Narciso Rodriguez

source: "Narciso Rodriguez: Designer Of Michelle Obama’s Election Night Dress Looks Back". Interview with Rachel Strugatz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Hands, Fabric

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

- Tim Wise

source: Tim Wise (2013). “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity”, p.117, City Lights Books

topic: Long, Fabric, Culture

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

- Wade Davis

source: Wade Davis (2009). “Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures”, p.64, D & M Publishers

topic: Earth, Sun, Fabric

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

- Barbara Goldsmith

source: Barbara Goldsmith (2011). “LITTLE GLORIA”, p.120, Knopf

topic: Color, Alcohol, Fabric

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

- Rosalind E. Krauss

source: Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.115, MIT Press

topic: Reality, Fabric, Rupture

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

- Roy Jenkins

source: Speech in the House of Commons. Hansard (transcript of Parliamentary Debates), Column 579, November 10, 1982.

topic: Fabric, Favour, Social

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.

- Stella McCartney

source: "Stella shares her animal-friendly message", www.elle.com. July 2, 2012.

topic: Animal, Skins, Fabric

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

- Paulo Freire

source: Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

topic: Teacher, Fabric, Torture

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (2018). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek”, p.21, Souvenir Press Ltd

topic: Fabric, Structure, Existence

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.992, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rocks, Fabric, Problem

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

- Pope John Paul II

source: Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

topic: Humanity, Fabric, Violence, Crimes Against Humanity

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

topic: Giving, Fabric, Shapes, Passing Through

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Giving, Fabric

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

- John Malkovich

source: "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

topic: Fabric, Littles, Lunatic, Little Bit

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

- Rick Santorum

source: "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

topic: Doe, Fabric, Our Society

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

topic: Inspirational, Ideas, Fabric

I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.

- Donna Karan

source: "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

topic: Fabric, One Thing

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

- Herb Kohl

source: "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Generations, Fabric, Shapes

The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.31, eBookIt.com

topic: Travel, Faithful, Fabric, Ravel, Faithful Love

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

- Iris Murdoch

source: Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.33, Routledge

topic: Fabric, Subtle, Symbols

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

- Samuel Johnson

source: William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Charlotte L. Fish (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes ; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.31

topic: Fabric, Poet, Injury, Adamant

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