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158 quotes by 147 authors
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IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.
— Ted Andrews
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Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a…
— Joan Halifax
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The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
— Bill Frist
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the…
— Eudora Welty
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Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight…
— Jo Baker
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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't…
— Katherine Catmull
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What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But…
— James Joyce
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I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize…
— Merlin Olsen
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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
— Edith Wharton
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What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind,…
— Anselm Kiefer
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There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is…
— Percival Lowell
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I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural…
— Zhuangzi
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.
— Momofuku Ando
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating…
— Gerard De Nerval
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Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We…
— Juliet Marillier
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An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual…
— Shane Black
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