Quotes of Fabric - somelinesforyou

“ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born. ”

- Geoff Davis

“ The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. ”

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

“ Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. ”

- Prince of Wales Charles

“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. ”

- Mark Twain

“ O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope

“ The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. ”

- Arthur Caplan

“ Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ”

- Liz Smith

“ Unraveling the web of Penelope. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. ”

- Unknown

“ Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise. ”

- Unknown

“ Web analytics, CRM, it all comes from direct marketing. Online marketers think they invented it, but they didn't. hold the primary skill sets, but they don't know they're sitting in the catbird seat. ”

- Larry Chase

“ Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ”

- Chief Seattle

“ I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. ”

- Lou Erickson

“ Make the doors upon a woman's wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. ”

- Aaron Hill

“ He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray
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