Fabric Quotes - Page 19

• Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.

  James Redford

  Numbers, Resilience, Quality

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.

  John Marshall

  Government, People, Fundamentals

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• You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Design

  "Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament". "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series". Book edited by Philip Schaff, translated by R.G. MacMullen, Volume 6, www.newadvent.org.

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Stars, Believe, Taken

  Czeslaw Milosz, “On Angels”

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Black

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they would teach you right, but with the liberty of just divorcing without a thought, it's horrible.

  Nick Nolte

  Home, Liberty, Moral

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Teacher, Color

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Growing Up, Clothes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Mom, Queens, Halloween

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

  DeVon Franklin

  Growing Up, Virginia, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Simple, Air

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Men, Construction

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• Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

  Shane Smith

  Fabric Of Life, Issues, Want

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• I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

  Edward Ruscha

  Watches, Tvs, Feels

  Interview with Ossian Ward, www.timeout.com. February 12, 2008.

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• The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Weight, Dressings, Inconsequential

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• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  Kary Mullis

  Successful, Fit, Social

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• The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Feel Better, Men, Suits

  "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.

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• There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

  David Hume

  Beautiful, Science, Hateful

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part of the fabric of life. It wasn't one-upmanship. No one bragged about their medals, but you could see the look in the eyes, the tip of the hat. You served your country first, then you went to work and had a family.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Eye, Fabric Of Life

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• Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

  Dan Chaon

  Memories, Self, Together

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Legacy, Fiction, Done

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Moving, Light, Years

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