Handwoven Rugs Quotes

#1. The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.

Lauren Oliver

#2. The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury

#3. Graham licked his lips. Merry fucking Christmas to me. How could he say no? He'd dreamt of what Michael might look like under those jeans for almost as long as he'd known him. His imagination wasn't nearly as good as he thought it was.

Em Woods

#4. I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Paul McGann

#5. I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

Zhu Rongji

#6. We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Charlotte Mason

#7. I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

Rick Riordan

#8. No, I've never truly been a minister.

Little Richard

#9. I am just as human as the man.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.

Austin Kleon

#11. I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. A safe army is better than a safe border

B.R. Ambedkar

#13. To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.

Andrew Bacevich