The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths.… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental… — Shilpa Agarwal Copy Share Image
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image