Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Quilts are more than something to keep you warm. They give women a way to express themselves creatively.I like the way that… — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.' She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my… — Kathy Garver Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re just an available s-source of heat.” “So… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults… — Radka Donnell Copy Share Image
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are… — Elizabeth Barton Copy Share Image
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
