Textiles Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one…
— Walter Benjamin
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at…
— Noam Chomsky
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"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding…
— Lewis Grizzard
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The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid…
— Verner Panton
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I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's…
— Ratan Tata
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The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined…
— John Coleman
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There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs
— Lawrence Summers
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China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by…
— Virginia Foxx
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Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a…
— Ron Miles
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Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes…
— Azar Nafisi
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Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
— Anna Sui
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Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other…
— Henri Cole
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I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
— Howard Coble
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Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial light or just…
— Verner Panton
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I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and…
— Melissa McCarthy
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Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs…
— Michelle Rempel
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I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you…
— Ezra Miller
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I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.
— Evelyn Ashford
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My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles…
— Roberto Cavalli
Who Wrote These Textiles Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Textiles Quotes as follows: