Quotes About Cloth

The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.

We weave our excuses around events. Thin, poor quality cloth of justification Poor substitutes for the heavy tribal blankets Once we wove to wrap our children.

I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

Standing drunk in the yard, while the rain soaked his hair and spread cold through the cloth of his doublet, Jerott thought of the fine design, firmly executed, of the campaign of Guînes and of Calais. And of his own joy and his liberation, after these huckstering years, to be again under the hand of this man, his arts at their meridian.

In his turn, Chancellor was looking into his tankard. "Cloth builds the vessel," he said. "And launches her; and pays for her crew." "But you do not travel by cloth," Lymond said. "But by sea card and compass and star.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

was certainly responsible for a much larger share of world trade than any comparable zone and the weight of its economic power even reached Mexico, whose textile manufacture suffered a crisis of 'de-industrialisation' due to Indian cloth

The gulls are coming up from the sea, crying, and drifting across like pieces of mist, like fragments of white cloth. They turn their heads and peer as they pass.

And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.

I have been a faithful son of the abyss, one who curdles when my drum calls. My singing is a coarse cloth on a desert floor.

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

Start to flavor your finger with the toothpaste. Then wrap your finger with a soft cloth, add a bit of the paste, and massage your kitten's teeth and gums with that. Stop when she protests too much. Be satisfied if you can do one side—you simply want to build up her tolerance level.

Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two crisp pieces of cloth, like a book mark between two pages.

For what was slavery in the American South, after all, but a system for transforming the labor of black bodies, via cotton plantations, into cloth?

Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.

Memories Hello, duck, in yellow cloth stuffed from inside out, little pillow.

If time were a bolt of cloth ... I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing "nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

I am the instrument of a firm which installs instruments to protect the instruments of firms which produce meat cloth machines and whisky, instruments to feed, dress, move and stupefy us.

I wear silk — the cover to uncover — because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern

the sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye.