Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it. — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
My parents are weavers. They worked very hard to give us our daily food. — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance. — James Allen Copy Share Image
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. .… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head.… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When we started the show [Lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - who had done the original miniseries and still owned the property… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon,… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America's leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Yesterday,’ she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, ‘the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the… — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made.… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I was always inspired by Sigourney [Weaver]. She's been able to have such beautiful diversity in her career and that's a really… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image