(16 quotes found)
“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”
Carson McCullers
“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
Walter Benjamin
“Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.”
“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.”
Lotte Lehmann
“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”
William Stafford
“I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web . . .”
George Eliot
“You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.”
Dave Heineman
“Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in common: that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time become a world.”
Clive Barker
“Socks comprised of 60 to 80 percent cotton woven with 15 to 20 percent nylon also showed a higher COF increase then socks with little or no cotton when moisture was added.”
Markus Smiley
“It just happened to be woven into the dialogue. I think that's great. It's revolutionary in many ways, not to make a big deal of it. The difference between being out and coming out and being out just means being open and honest about who you are. I'm not on a show with a pink triangle or [rainbow] flag. I'm just me on the show and being me, which means that being gay is just a part of who I am.”
Keith Boykin