Cloth Quotes

171 Cloth quotes by 159 unique authors

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet… — Winston Churchill
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,… — John Updike
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have… — Jeanine Basinger
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound,… — Stephen Vincent Benet
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the… — William Blake
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from… — Donald Barnhouse
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but… — Robert Bringhurst
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on… — Christopher Paul Curtis
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too… — Mark Hamill
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is… — John Zorn
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. — William Ralph Inge
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion. — Mark Twain
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a… — Barbara Kruger
Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the… — Raymond Sokolov
The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to… — Pierre Balmain
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. — Bartholomaus
Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of… — Aime Cesaire
I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man,… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product… — Emile Durkheim
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. — Jesse Jackson

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