Thread Quotes - Page 26

• If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

  Seth Godin

  Iphone, Data, Doing Your Best

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• I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

  Charles Stross

  Character, Track, Progress

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• But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Fall, Worry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Thinking, Common Threads, Facts

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• The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

  Edward Young

  Happiness, Men, Ties

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.9

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Broken

  Mary Balogh (2007). “Simply Magic”, p.223, Delacorte Press

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• I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'

  Anita O'Day

  Hipster, Cat, Men

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• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  Nate Berkus

  Lying, Mean, Important

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, uk.askmen.com.

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• Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

  Rosanne Cash

  Thinking, Rivers, Goal

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• Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Iraq, United States

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• I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.

  Clark Gable

  Coffee, Interesting, May

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• When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

  Isabel Wolff

  Past, Vintage, Fabric

  Isabel Wolff (2010). “A Vintage Affair: A Novel”, p.17, Bantam

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• Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
  Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
  Shore his old thread in twain.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Grief, Poor

  Shane Barnes, Aidan Coleman, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello”, p.193, Insight Publications

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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• The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

  Amanda Ripley

  Worst Moments, People, Focus

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Country, Needs, May

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• He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Heart, Ties, Together

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.85

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• The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

  Leonard Cohen

  Light, Trouble, Wave

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• I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Country, Religious, Son

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• A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

  Anne Perry

  Dream, Mind, Library

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

  John McCain

  Country, Unique, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to tell it because you know how they connect, then it's a thread that will land right in your mind, body and soul.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Land, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
  And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

  Homer

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

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