Thread Quotes

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that. — Maggie Smith

She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags. — Ainslie Hogarth

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. — Al Gore

Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one — Elizabeth Chadwick

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind. — Jack Dempsey

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others. — Cameron Dokey

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

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A] — Michel De Montaigne

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it. — Jan Shipps

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread. — Barbara Mertz

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

She has that something, like the thread in a crystal-bead necklace. She holds it all together. — Amish Tripathi

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded — Hisham Matar

I don't even want to know someone who isn't barely hanging on by a thread. — Amy Schumer

Not only are we not alone, we are a thread in a great tapestry that is rich, because we exist. — Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

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

Jessie's fate was a complex tapestry of many choices and many circumstances, and Kera knew she had been only one small thread in the weave. — L.J. Sellers

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ... — Marjane Satrapi

THE COMMON THREAD will help keep you on track during challenging times, during the pursuit of your hopes, dreams & goals — Jerry Gladstone

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music. — Chynna Phillips

I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling. — Margo Kaufman

It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone. — Lily King

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. — Greg Graffin

It was like pulling one loose thread on a sweater, and suddenly, poof, no sweater! And you're standing naked in a new hotel with terrible lighting. — Alice Clayton

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it. — Henry Adams

Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering dreams? — Janet Frame

Life and death are one thread ... — Laozi

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

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves. — Kate Thompson

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

Kindness is a net without thread; surround everyone with it. — Debasish Mridha

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. — Daniel Taylor

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. — Don Hewitt

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs. — Don McLean

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

She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl. — Robert Penn Warren

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you. — Jeffrey Fry

Love is the garland without thread that bound us together as a family, as a society, as a nation, and for the humanity. — Debasish Mridha

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread. — Tim Tharp

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret

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.

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life. — Martin Buxbaum

We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught. — Swami Vivekananda

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. — Nancy Byrd Turner

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. — Kate DiCamillo

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently. — Jane Siberry

A HABIT IS A CABLE; WE WEAVE A THREAD EACH DAY, AND AT LAST WE CANNOT BREAK IT." - Horace Mann — Jack Canfield

Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts. — Edna O'Brien

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. — Zelda Popkin

The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from. — Poh Ling Yeow

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world. — Debasish Mridha

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton

Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. — Charles Dickens

All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. — Samael Aun Weor

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. — Fred Alan Wolf

Humanity could be more humane if we can tie everyone with the thread of love. — Debasish Mridha

Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life. — Joy Smith

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. — Charles R. Swindoll

So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.

"My tailor insists. — Sharon Cameron

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo

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

AMENTACEOUS (AMENTA'CEOUS) adj.[amentatus, Lat.]Hanging as by a thread. The pine tree hath amentaceous flowers or katkins.Miller. — Samuel Johnson

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

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it. — Peter Watts

I felt even disappointed when he resumed the thread of his narrative. — Marcel Proust

A lover ties the world together with the thread of pure love. — Debasish Mridha

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. — Aldous Huxley

I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts; Verily He is the thread which supports Muktanand's life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Fate doesn't care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread — Cecilia Robert

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. — John Piper

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight — Anna Akhmatova

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. — Jesse Jackson

The thread breakes, where it is weakest. — George Herbert

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold. — Maggie Stiefvater

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. — Jeff Bezos

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? — James Richardson

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break. — Thomas Hardy

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough — Sebastian Barry

thread, but it's black. — Mark Twain

I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting. — Clark Gable

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

The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan

All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination — Victor Hugo

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

Creation and healing are born of the same thread. Bringing something to life can sometimes heal the soul, while still honoring what a person has lost. — Keri Lake

the sun's last remaining thread fell across my face, bleaching any semblance of confidence I'd hoped to see. — Jessica Knoll

You're mine," "Not his. Mine. Only mine. Always mine. — Jennifer Estep

Life is a thread that someone entangled. — Fernando Pessoa

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best stories, I feel, are those that are self-deprecating and involve some thread of irony. — Penny Reid

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

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers. — Daniel Silva