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
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. — John Milton 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
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
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do… Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. — Lillian Hellman 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
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
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
“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
I am very partial to Lucknow Chikankari work. My colors that I love to work with are ivory based colors, to make… — Rhea Pillai 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
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or… — Alison Bechdel 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
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
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
“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
Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In… — Nicholas Ray 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
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
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet,… — John Milton 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
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out… — Wendell Berry 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
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
The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic… — Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis Copy Share Image
“ NEXT LIFE . My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of… — Vivian Swift Copy Share Image
