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  • Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

    Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, Faber & Faber
  • Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber
  • In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

    Artist   Dancer   Bird  
  • Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

    Form   Strings   Thread  
    Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”
  • A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

    Years   Two   Three  
  • The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

    Running   School   Class  
    1968 Forty Years On (published 1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).
  • I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

    William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin
  • One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

    Jobs   Focus   Directors  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  • First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

  • Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

  • Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

    People   Car   Fancy  
    Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com
  • Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

    Purple   White   Long  
  • There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

    Running   Mean   Race  
    Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.
  • A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

    Time   Sleep   Men  
  • If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

  • I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

    Hurt   Lying   Heart  
    Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin
  • I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama
  • I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

  • There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

    "A Half Dozen Questions for Drew Brees". Interview with John B. Thompson, www.gq.com. April 23, 2010.
  • Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

    War   Fighting   Past  
  • He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

    Heart   Ties   Together  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.85
  • Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

    Two   Stories   Half  
  • The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

    History   Woven   Thread  
    Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.53, Pan Macmillan
  • Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

    "George Foreman Has Wisdom, Faith Lessons To Share". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 6, 2010.
  • We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

    Lonely   Sibling   Home  
  • Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

    Spring   Voice   Age  
    Clive Barker (2001). “Weaveworld”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

    Heart   Hair   Sacred  
  • Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

    Strong   Fall   Oneness  
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic
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