Cloth Quotes
171 Cloth quotes by 159 unique authors
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
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No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".
— Franz Kafka
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I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could…
— James Herriot
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Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop…
— Cassandra Clare
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You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.
— Maria V. Snyder
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Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily.…
— Holly Black
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there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't…
— George R. R. Martin
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking…
— Arundhati Roy
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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as…
— John Edward Williams
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Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then…
— Carlo Collodi
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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
— Mark Twain
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Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
— Arundhati Roy
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In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the…
— Ben Shapiro
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In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather…
— Chris Diamantopoulos
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that…
— Hannah Kearney
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If I have makeup, I use a cleanser, but otherwise, I just use a hot cloth at the end of the day to keep moisture…
— Jane Kaczmarek
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A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection…
— James Gleick
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They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?
— Brendan Fraser
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I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling…
— John Sexton
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But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance,…
— Rudolf Hiferding
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Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked…
— Charles Perrault
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You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was…
— Jules Shear
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Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
— Bradley Chicho
Who Wrote These Cloth Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 171 Cloth Quotes, led by these top contributors: