Thread Quotes - Page 2

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

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.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

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.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

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.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

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.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.