Thread famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-- Aldous Huxley -
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
-- Allan Kaprow -
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
-- Arthur Erickson -
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
-- Bill Frist -
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
-- Carmen Laforet -
There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
-- Dennis Lehane -
Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
-- Ernst Gombrich -
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
-- Gail Simmons -
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
-- George Eliot -
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
-- George MacDonald -
The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
-- James Richardson -
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
-- Janet Maslin -
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat -
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
-- Jeanne Calment -
Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.
-- Jeffery Taylor -
We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.
-- Kij Johnson -
My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
-- Leslie Feinberg -
You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.
-- Martha Ostenso -
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
-- Nadeem Aslam -
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
-- Okakura Kakuzo -
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
-- Orson Scott Card -
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread
-- Rafael Palmeiro -
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
-- Richard Hell -
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
-- Rob Pike -
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
-- Robert Burton -
Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
-- Sidney Sheldon -
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
-- Thomas Hood -
Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.
-- Trevor Horn -
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
-- William Ellery Channing -
If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
-- Mike Godwin -
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.
-- Scott Sanders -
Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.
-- Talal Asad
