Cloth Quotes
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Cloth Quotes & Sayings
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the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye.
— Lisa See
And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.
— Kate DiCamillo
Kindness is the only cloth that never outdate
— Unknown Author 1
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
— Charles James
I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.
— Arbella Stuart
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
— Jed S. Rakoff
The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.
— Peter Straub
Cole knew what the chemical smell on the cloth over his nose meant. He took one breath, and his last conscious thought was simple: Kyle.
— Debra Anastasia
You 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
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
— John Heywood
She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibly become co-conspirators.
— Jordan Stratford
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
— Jane Austen
My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton
Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.
— Harper Lee
Society is founded upon Cloth;
— Thomas Carlyle
An unfaithful wife is like a cloth in an open marketplace.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth and pretend they don't exist.
— Amy Matayo
Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.
— Paul Doherty
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
— John Wycliffe
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
— Bartholomaus
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he
whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing. — Dan Brown
whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing. — Dan Brown
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
— Gustave Flaubert
A shower is the perfect place for crying. No one can hear you if you do it quietly, into a wash-cloth, with the water running.
— Suzanne Supplee
Leo and I are kindred spirits
we're cut from the same cloth, — Kate Winslet
we're cut from the same cloth, — Kate Winslet
Novelty's a cloth that wears thin at an alarming rate.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.
— William Donaldson
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth. — Roman Payne
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth. — Roman Payne
Eddies of dry wind whipped tatters of cloth and reed paper about in dancing circles.
— Steven Erikson
Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.
— Graham Greene
When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve.
— Lois Lowry
Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
— Elizabeth Wein
It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.
— Maria V. Snyder
I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.
— Adam Nevill
Let's get married,' he would say to her, through the hush of the hallway, his voice sounding like a dusting cloth on the first spring cleaning.
— Solomon Deep
It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you."
"I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth. — Mary Connealy
"I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth. — Mary Connealy
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
— Walter Moers
We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.
— Philippa Gregory
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
— Iain Duncan Smith
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
— Francis Quarles
Whatever works, that's my philosophy. I don't care if it's magic beans or a prayer cloth dipped in the Jordan River.
— Robert Ferrigno
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
— Stefan Molyneux
A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
— Linda Grant
Autumn breathes in shades of white; cloth of mist dressed fields comfortable.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough.
— Sarah Dunant
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.
— Frances Hardinge
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
— Yukio Mishima
Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
— Bradley Chicho
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
— Mahatma Gandhi
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
— Ambrose Bierce
If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze
— Kamala Suraiyya Das
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
— Iggy Azalea
Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!
— Matt Kindt
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
— William Ralph Inge
Maharajji would quote Kabir: It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart.
— Ram Dass
When trial in life comes over us, we should be thankful, because God purifies us ... as a new cloth needs to be washed.
— Radostin Chernev
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.
— Virginia Woolf
Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.
— Iain Sinclair
So just because I gave the right name to a bit of colored cloth you conclude that I'm not mad.
— Paulo Coelho
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
— Martin Luther
I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth.
— Charlotte Bronte
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
— George Herbert
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
— Adrian Cronauer
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Lamen though of modest origins was a thoughtful young man who spoke Veretian very well, even if his knowledge of cloth was lacking. 'I
— C.S. Pacat
Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.
— Alice Cary
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.
— Renzo Rosso
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
— Stephen King
Shape your coat according to your cloth.
— Thomas Nashe
Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
— Shannon Hale
I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
— Foxy Brown
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
— Patti Smith
That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right! — Darren Shan
you're right! — Darren Shan
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
— Plutarch
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
— Jeanine Basinger
I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.
— Lisa Ling
I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.
— Jane Yolen
When you put on a new cloth with the same attitude, you are only changing the diet that goes into the same stomach!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He jammed the sodden cap back on. The lumps of cloth clung to his skull like an overweight cat afraid of heights, and ruined the image of dignity.
— Sarah E. Morin
My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.
— Emo Philips
The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
— Alexandre Dumas