Fabric Quotes - Page 5

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.

Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?

I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancient times understood that such physical acts and practices as rest and worship, dietary restrictions, and mandated fabric in their wardrobes were of great value to their faith and life.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.