Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Liberty Ross

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Harvey Pitt

Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,

S. Jay Olshansky

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Theodore William Richards

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.