Fabric Quotes · Page 6

This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while…

— Sheila Cassidy

Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.…

— Stephen Coonts

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a…

— Willis Regier

The fabric of my life is under my skin; [but] it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when…

— Charlize Theron

When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were…

— Jonas Carpignano

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always…

— Olivier Theyskens

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did…

— R. C. Sproul

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

— Don Yaeger

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one…

— Virginia Woolf

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,…

— Poppy Delevingne

These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of…

— Cynthia Ozick

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

— Frederick Lenz

I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

— Amy B. Harris

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

— Dov Davidoff

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of…

— John Hope Franklin

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

— Milla Jovovich

I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I…

— Rei Kawakubo

I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been…

— Patrick Grant

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than…

— Steve King

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to…

— Nathan Huggins

I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

— Anne Hathaway

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost…

— Dante Alighieri

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…

— Gerald Durrell