Fabric Quotes - Page 4

• Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Chester A. Arthur's statement upon the death of President Garfield, as quoted in "Messages and Papers of the Presidents", Volume 8, 1897.

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• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

  Henry Miller

  Liars, Lying, Writing

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.247, New Directions Publishing

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• The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

  Ernest Istook

  Law, Umpires, People

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• The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

  Adam Schiff

  America, Legacy, Woven

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• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  Warren E. Burger

  Crime, American Life

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• This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

  Shelley Fabares

  People, Soul, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Citizens, Complicated, States

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

  Lord Mountbatten

  War, Men, Half

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• I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Country, Political, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Miracle, Cartoon, Would Be

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• I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

  Judith Guest

  Tears, Social

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• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Cutting, America

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• Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

  Alex Winter

  Thinking, People, Culture

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• If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Views, Together

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• I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fashion, Color, Age

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• Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Emotional, Color

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.17, Vintage

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• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Cells, Years

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

  James Frey

  Morning, Laughter, Children

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• I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Fall, Who I Am

  "I was just waiting for my time". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2007.

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• My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Doctors, Trying

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• Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

  Alber Elbaz

  Color, Two, Trying

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 17, 2007.

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

  Augusten Burroughs

  White, Tuna, Would Be

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.31, Macmillan

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