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Quotes About Thread

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
~ Michael Kors
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
~ Robert Musil
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
~ Arthur Miller
thread, but it's black.
~ Mark Twain
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.
~ Mary Balogh
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
It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.
~ Jon McGregor
It made me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.
~ Jon McGregor
an important thing to know about JavaScript: there's one queue and one "thread of control," meaning there is only one of me going through the events one at a time.
~ Eric Freeman
Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these times, I felt a kind of release that was almost like happiness.
~ Gioia Diliberto
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.
~ Graham Greene
Basically, that marble fucker is hanging by a thread. So when the rally starts, stay to the side. And warn your wife." "But the cream of Leningrad will be standing there! What if the thing falls?" "Might be for the best, the foreman replied wanly.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked. "My tailor insists.
~ Sharon Cameron
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
~ Arthur Erickson
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All afternoon it rained, then such power came down from the clouds on a yellow thread, as authoritative as God is supposed to be. When it hit the tree, her body opened forever.
~ Mary Oliver
Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called senseless acts has its thread looping back through the world and into a human heart.
~ Mary Oliver
DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY PATHWAYS, NARROW AND subtle. Fingerprints. The lost piece of thread. The dog barking in the night. But there is also Google.
~ Maureen Johnson
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I've not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
~ J. C. Ryle
None could see her without pity, unless he had a felon's heart; she was so tightly bound. The tears ran down her face and fell upon her grey gown where ran a little thread of gold, and a thread of gold was twined into her hair.
~ Joseph Bédier
The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known ... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.
~ Joseph Campbell
Hablar es recorrer un hilo. Escribir, en cambio, es poseerlo, devanarlo.
~ Erri De Luca