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Quotes About Thread

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
~ Greg Graffin
At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?
~ Jason Kilar
I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
~ John Edwards
For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.
~ Michelle Paver
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
~ Gabrielle Aplin
I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
~ Patti Scialfa
It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.
~ Paula Pell
I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.
~ Sissy Spacek
'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.
~ David Hepworth
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
~ Hamish Bowles
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
~ Susanna Kearsley
The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.
~ Ronny Chieng
Normally my films have a single thread of an emotion, an insight or one single belief, and then I turn the entire story and build it around that.
~ Shoojit Sircar
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.
~ John Badham
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
~ George Herbert
The more I look into this issue, the more I'm convinced that the imagination is this mysterious thread: specifically, the imagination "baptized" and "sanctified" by the Holy Spirit.
~ Sarah Arthur
Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Nuestro hermoso deber es imaginar que hay un laberinto y un hilo.»
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In relation to the labyrinth of her heart, every young girl is an Ariadne; she owns the thread by which one can find one's way through it, but she owns it without herself knowing how to use it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns
~ Frank Bidart, Star Dust
Soft, flexible thread of this sort is a necessary prerequisite to making woven cloth. On a far more basic level, string can be used simply to tie things up - to catch, to hold, to carry. From these notions come snares and fishlines, tethers and leashes, carrying nets, handles, and packages, not to mention a way of binding objects together to form more complex tools.
~ Elizabeth Wayland Barber