Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Ritu Kumar's clothes are totally great. Her embroidery is perfect. She lives up to her name over and over again. — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut. — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism,… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of… — Eliza Bennett Copy Share Image
“The careful, embroidered stitches delineated a coil of some sort. It looked rather like a halved snail shell, but the interior was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy,… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee; Fairies use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
