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Embroidery Quotes

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Veronica Roth
Thinking, Tugging, Embroidery
Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Clothes, Embroidery, Suits

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

Maria Mitchell
Stars, Eye, Embroidery
Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Lillian Hellman
Embroidery, Fancy, Needlework

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Bill Vaughan
Humility, Embroidery, Chiefs

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

Alexander McQueen
Looks, Pieces, Embroidery

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

John Milton
Flower, Embroidery, Pansies
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

Will Cuppy
Males, Female, Embroidery
Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

Megan Whalen Turner
Father, Attention, Embroidery

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