Cloth Quotes

171 Cloth quotes by 159 unique authors

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. — Mark Lawrenson
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. — Mira Nair
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in… — George Saunders
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame… — John Sexton
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you… — Iain Duncan Smith
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not… — Patti Smith
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is… — John Thune
In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand. — Vivienne Westwood
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt… — Helen Fisher
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the… — Edna O'Brien
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand… — Barbara Kingsolver
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths… — Lloyd Alexander
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of… — Gloria Naylor
For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on… — Amin Maalouf
Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave… — Laurell K. Hamilton
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an… — Alice Sebold
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"… — Dean Koontz
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later… — Milan Kundera
I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him… — Martine Leavitt
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… — Arundhati Roy
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer

Who Wrote These Cloth Quotes

159 authors contributed a total of 171 Cloth Quotes, led by these top contributors: