Fabric Quotes - Page 2

• A piece of fabric can get me going.

  Anna Sui

  Pieces

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• I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Community, May

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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• Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

  David Korten

  Strong, Rights, Proud

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• In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

  Marianne Moore

  Excitement, Gravity, Sentences

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Kick Ass

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Migration, Migrants, American Life

  President John F. Kennedy (2016). “A Nation Of Immigrants”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Foundation, Structure

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 330, 1895.

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• I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

  John Malkovich

  Littles, Lunatic, Bits

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Common Humanity, Names

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

  Anwar Sadat

  Inspirational, Change, Stress

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

  Philip Yancey

  Years, Oil, Aquifers

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• Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

  David Bromstad

  Technology, Color, Design

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• Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

  David Korten

  Wall, Needs, Social

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• Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

  Phil Crosby

  Organization, Quality, Environment

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

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Nature, Quilts, Ideas

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

  Jim Hodges

  Growing Up, Writing, Emotional

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• Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Energy, Would Be, Collapse

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• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

  Issey Miyake

  Underwear, Machines, Assistants

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• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

  Mario Batali

  Spring, Food, Yellow

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

  Brad Henry

  Oklahoma, Resilience, Stronger

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