#thread

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#biggest #book #country #crow #end

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

— Jeanne Calment

#excuse #i #life #me #parents

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part. ↗

— David Byrne

#answer #artistically #artists #asking #been

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. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#duty #effect #false #life-time #loom

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#entire #fabric #her #longest #nature

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#better #fool #gilded #saint #school

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. ↗

— Michael Kors

#biggest lesson #consistent #fashion #i #inconsistent

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. ↗

— Don Hewitt

#phrase #thread

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#after #analyze #apart #chance #cinema