Cloth Quotes
171 Cloth quotes by 159 unique authors
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
— Albert Camus
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Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure…
— James M. Barrie
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He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once." She opened…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
— Stephen King
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I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between…
— Sylvia Browne
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it…
— Alice Sebold
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A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning…
— George Carlin
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There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the…
— Harper Lee
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I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin had noticed that…
— Shannon Hale
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The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
— Michael Ondaatje
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When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work…
— Khalil Gibran
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If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass…
— Justina Chen
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
— Shannon Hale
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Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood…
— Clive Barker
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Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no…
— Michael Grant
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I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the…
— Karen Cushman
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Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has…
— Tim Burton
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were…
— Charles Bukowski
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The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
— Virginia Woolf
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We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part…
— Frank Delaney
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Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead…
— Sarah MacLean
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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into…
— Haruki Murakami
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Bran grabbed my hand,pulled me to a chest, and swung the heavy lid open. A white cloth covered the contents. He jerked it aside. Human…
— Ilona Andrews
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By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Cloth Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 171 Cloth Quotes, led by these top contributors: