Woven Quotes
215 quotes by 194 authors
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
— Walter Benjamin
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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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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it…
— Tori Amos
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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
— Walter Benjamin
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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes,…
— Jesse Jackson
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
— George Eliot
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If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven…
— Arthur Eddington
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The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed…
— David H. Hubel
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Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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I hope our granddaughters and grandsons grow up knowing that they are not and have never been third-party observers of the priesthood. The blessings of…
— Julie B. Beck
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The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.
— Jacob Moleschott
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What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses…
— IU?. I. Manin
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Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in…
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
— Freeman Dyson
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of…
— Ralph Ellison
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One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is…
— Immanuel Kant
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And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than…
— John F. Kennedy
Who Wrote These Woven Quotes
194 authors contributed a total of 215 Woven Quotes, led by these top contributors: