1.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework,
any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Honore de Balzac
2.
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
Thomas Hood
3.
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
Ernst Gombrich
4.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Nadeem Aslam
6.
My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
Leslie Feinberg
7.
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
George MacDonald
9.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
10.
Life and death are one thread.
Laozi
11.
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.
George Herbert
12.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
13.
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
Rob Pike
14.
But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.
Martha Ostenso
15.
There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
Dennis Lehane
16.
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
17.
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
Richard Hell
18.
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.
William Ellery Channing
19.
Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
Sidney Sheldon
20.
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment
21.
If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
Mike Godwin
22.
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.
Richard Hell
23.
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
Jennifer Estep
24.
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
Ezra Taft Benson
25.
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Bill Frist
26.
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.
Carl Jung
27.
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
Carmen Laforet
29.
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.
Eric Hoffer
30.
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.
Okakura Kakuzo
31.
You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.
Maria V. Snyder
32.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Victor Hugo
35.
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.
Scott Sanders
36.
Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
Bill Ayers
37.
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
Gail Simmons
38.
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.
Kij Johnson
39.
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
Antonio Porchia
40.
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.
Sathya Sai Baba
41.
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
Janet Maslin
42.
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
Barbara Mertz
43.
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
Madame de Stael
45.
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.
Neal Stephenson
46.
Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
Elizabeth Wein
47.
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.
Talal Asad
49.
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.
Trevor Horn
50.
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.
Lauren Oliver