Tapestry Quotes - Page 2

• The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.

  Thomas Hampson

  Song, Eye, Language

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  History, Tragedy, Woven

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

  Tony Robbins

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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  Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Thinking, Individual Differences

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• I doubted my creative spirit three years ago and God showed me a way to praise Him through song. It opened the door to a whole tapestry of images and concepts that were brand new for me and I continued on that path.

  Jonathan Cain

  Song, Doors, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Believe, Unique, Space

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Life, Kwanzaa, World

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• I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

  Jim Rohn

  Woven, Care, Chance

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• If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

  Greg Kinnear

  Perfect, Sound, Want

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• I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

  Jean Shepherd

  Space, Lakes, Michigan

  Jean Shepherd (2010). “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Wise, Gratitude

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  Tab Hunter

  Years, Two, Three

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• The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

  Bill Frist

  America, Important, Thread

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• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  Eunice Tietjens

  Friendship, Beautiful, Song

  Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Karma, Patterns, Musician

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Men, Effort

  "Thatcher funeral address prompts Tory praise for bishop of London" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Integrity, Fate

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Style, Albums

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• I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground that I try to strike... away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - oh, my God. I hate that stuff.

  Shane Black

  Hate, Writing, Swimming

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Science, Working Together, Research

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• No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dark, Grace, Matter

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