Homespun Quotes

#1. I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Benedict Cumberbatch

#2. An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom.

Steven D. Levitt

#3. However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun

#4. If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The sage, while clad in homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.

Lao-Tzu

#6. It's the small miracles that happen every day that keep us going. You just have to look for them and believe.
...said by Papa James in Homespun Hearts

Cynthia Thomason

#7. Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#8. Two hundred thousand Americans sent in their WIN enlistment forms. Now that the campaign season was upon us, a reeling Republican Party had something to sell: collective obligation, in the key of homespun earnestness.

Rick Perlstein

#9. I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The Jedi Order's homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the light in the dark, the convergence of opposing energies.

James Luceno

#11. Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#12. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

#13. Sister Evangelina had plenty of homespun advice to offer her patients: "Where-ere you be, let your wind go free", to which the reply was always chanted: "In Church and Chapel let it rattle".

Jennifer Worth

#14. Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

#15. Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

John Sebastian

#16. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

Catrina Burgess

#18. Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.

Linda Thompson

#19. I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

Allan Hamilton

#20. I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

Danny McBride

#21. I think everyone should have social media - all young people, at least.

Ansel Elgort

#22. Well, my dear. At least you can say you're even now.

Soman Chainani

#23. But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Rupert Brooke

#24. You are or become what you think you are

Sunday Adelaja

#25. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

J. Loren Norris

#26. My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

Agatha Christie

#27. Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

John Anderson

#28. I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

John Legend

#29. I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

Dana Delany

#30. Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

Walter Darby Bannard

#31. I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Elizabeth Edwards