Lace Quotes - Page 3

• Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!

  Tinker Hatfield

  "Nike is once again promising the power-lacing shoes from Back To The Future II" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2014.

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• I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

  Britt Ekland

  Vintage, Dresses, Jewelry

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• I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.

  David Ebershoff

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Inspiration, Growing

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Dark, Moon

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• I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Issues, Nails, Boots

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.66

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• Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Needs, Cuffs

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skins, Weight, Want

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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• The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Laughter, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Sports, Men, Shoes

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shoes, Ties, Unattractive

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• The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Girl, Successful, Shoes

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• Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.

  Greg Sampson

  Running, Shoes

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• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Jewels, Land

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• My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Break Out, Illness, Mending

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• Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ice, Envy, Design

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

  Erin Wasson

  Thinking, Long, People

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• When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

  August Strindberg

  Clothes, Soul, Buttons

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• Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

  Scott Westerfeld

  Building, Climbs

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• What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dog, Kings, Shoes

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• God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weather, Gold, Satan

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Happiness, Girl, Pain

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• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Humble, Knitting, Order

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing

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