Fabric Quotes - page 2

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. (Paul Bowles)
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country. View quote
Charles James Fox
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town. View quote
Christopher Alexander
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love. View quote
Jacques Maritain
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole. View quote
Joe Biden
Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear-particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception. View quote
Thomas Szasz
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature. View quote
William Harvey
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys. View quote
Melissa McCarthy
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music. (Maurice Gibb)
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it. View quote
Ben Goldacre
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
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. View quote
Alex Winter
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. View quote
Adam Schiff
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. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes. View quote
Catherine Malandrino
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. View quote
David Korten
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. View quote
David Korten
Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design. (Don Yaeger)
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working. View quote
Donna Shalala
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. View quote
Ernest Istook
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. View quote
Francesca Annis
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me. View quote
Gabrielle Anwar