Thread Quotes · Page 20

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to…

— Jodi Picoult

To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel…

— Laura E. Richards

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

— Russell Kirk

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before,…

— Jimmy Page

Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd,…

— Italo Calvino

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

— Janet Maslin

This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But…

— Katherine Paterson

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western…

— Arthur Erickson

'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to…

— David Hepworth

Literally draw a detailed map-like an organization chart-of interlocking ownership and affiliates, many of which were also publicly traded. So, identifying one…

— Seth Klarman

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery…

— Anonymous

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we…

— Michael York

Life and death are one thread.

— Laozi

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

— Don McLean

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

— Dennis Lehane

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff…

— William Butler Yeats

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good…

— Mike Pence

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I…

— Maya Lin

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place…

— Jodi Picoult

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred…

— Sarah Waters

I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things:…

— Edith Södergran

There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean,…

— Barack Obama

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level…

— Terrence Howard

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on…

— Louise J. Kaplan