Thread Quotes

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework,
any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Life and death are one thread.

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

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

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.