Quotes About Cloth

A big advantage of being bald is that you can style your hair with a damp cloth.

a small piece of silk. It was at once iridescent and delicate, and shone with a colour no Occidental could ever have conceived....I held it in my hands, allowing it to cascade from my fingers. It was shot through with so many strands of colour that every time it moved its appearance changed: moonlight, emeralds and pearls all passed through my hands. This cold chameleon so transformed itself that I could scarcely believe it was the same piece of cloth.

The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

The soul is like a crystal in the sunshine over which a thick black cloth has been thrown so that however brightly the sun may shine the crystal can never reflect it.

Crises of expression and spasms of eros:that's the man of today,the inside a vacuum,the continuity of personalityprovided by his suit,which with stout cloth might be good for ten years.

I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye. "Now, go Arrghh. "Arrghh. She nods. "There. You're a pirate.

What happened?" said Clover, wetting a cloth in the basin, and dabbing Azalea's face. "She had a sort of fit," said the King. "I think her underthings may be laced too tightly." All the girls, including Azalea, blushed brilliantly. " Sir ," said Eve. "You're not suppose to know about the U word!" "Am I not? Forgive me.

LIFE IS WEATHER. LIFE IS MEALS. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.

I think of the power of that flimsy cloth, the veil. It helped me win a crucial battle today. I must learn how to use this unique weapon to its fullest.

That depends, I said, whipping off the cloth. If you think it's a deadly performing spider -- you're right!

Because he had enjoyed every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rash was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of resilience and preseverance of the tale of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross. In and out of sleep. Like a needle coming out from under a black cloth and then vanishing again. Unthreaded.

In Antwerp they slide the printed sheets of the gospels between the folds of bales of cloth, where they hide, white against white. Warm, nestled, God whispers within each bundle; His word sails the sea, is unloaded in eastern ports, travels to London in a cart.

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.

It is a gown, but one such as I have never seen before. It is composed mostly of the cloth she showed me, but there are strips of other material running through it, some diaphanous and others satiny, some patterned in butterfly wings, some felted wool. Dangling threads hang from torn edges, and a few pieces of thin fabric have been wadded up to give them a new texture. The swirling patchwork she has created is at once tattered and beautiful.

now would be great exercise." But Kennie wasn't listening. She ping-ponged over to the sectional couch with the rust-colored, cabin-in-the-woods pattern, where she fell face down into the nappy cloth. She twitched and wriggled

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk, Sal said.

Monk might have even written a message on the cloth, using the AG-7 astronaut pen he always carried in his jacket. But I didn't need a message. I knew.

One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.

Sanguine was an expensive cloth dyed blood-red –

Grey was still in his shirtsleeves; the rain had cut through the cloth to his flesh.

I had a sudden memory of the waulking shed, where the women sat in two facing rows, barefooted and bare-armed in their oldest clothes, bracing themselves against the walls as they thrust with their feet against the long, sodden worm of woolen cloth, battering it into the tight, felted weave that would repel Highland mists and even light rain, keeping the wearer safe from the chill.