Top 100 Quotes About Seams
#1. Our students didn't used to come from such damaged families," Louis mused. "It's true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.
Paul Russell
#2. There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature ... Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
Kate Mosse
#3. How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?
Ruth Kluger
#4. Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.
Gerald Vizenor
#5. Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
Emile M. Cioran
#6. The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it's time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.
Tarryn Fisher
#7. All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
Charles James
#8. A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
Bill Bryson
#9. Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.
Leah Raeder
#10. By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to fuck you, never wanting another man inside you again.
T.K. Leigh
#11. She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams.
Ashley Poston
#12. I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.
Laura Resau
#13. Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
Jeffrey Sachs
#14. It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
Henrik Ibsen
#15. The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.
Paula Stokes
#16. In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it's architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
Tom Ford
#17. The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.
Richard Shweder
#19. She had never felt so relieved to say something that had torn her apart at the seams.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#20. Your Seer needs my help to do somethin' she can't. To join the ti-bon-age, mend the seams she ripped herself."
Link didn't understand either. "T-bone what? What kinda steak are we talkin' about here?
Kami Garcia
#21. The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.
John Shelton Reed
#22. The mother sings a hungry song
Of blood and cracking teeth
She dances in the dark below
wants to pull us underneath
Her claws, they rise, they sway in dance
to the melody of screams
Her lullaby will never end
till the world comes apart at the seams
Amy Lukavics
#23. Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.
Tim McGraw
#24. Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see that we are all the same. So find the love inside yourself because every heart has a story to tell.
Sara Haze
#25. Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.
John Kennedy Toole
#26. The Werewolf crossed the rutted path just as Bill pedaled into the middle of Neibolt Street. Blood splattered its faded jeans, and looking back over his shoulder, filled with a kind of dreadful, unbreakable fascination that was akin to hypnosis, Richie saw that the seams
Stephen King
#27. Heart of a queen you'll see me burst at the seams.
Coco J. Ginger
#28. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
Nikki Sixx
#29. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.
Cecil Baldwin
#30. Gods, to fall for someone so hard surely you were bound to break apart. Unravel at the seams because you are undone by how they make you feel.
Penelope Fletcher
#31. I'm off to find my world, my dreams,
Carve my niche, sew my seams,
Remember, as I sail my streams-
I'll love you all the way.
Brooke Mueller
#32. It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.
Jostein Gaarder
#33. We must dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides.
San Juan De La Cruz
#34. Dark seams radiated outwards like a shotgun blast of ink, as if Nico's body were trying to expel all the shadows he'd travelled through. Yesterday had been worse: an entire meadow withering, skeletons rising from the earth. Reyna wasn't anxious for that to happen again.
Rick Riordan
#35. Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.
Coco Chanel
#36. Your name is Rain, isn't it? Rain slips in the cracks and slides through the seams. You can do it? Can't you?
Gregory Maguire
#37. For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.
Gabriel Mann
#38. I got to keep it tight like seams,
Cause ain't no fiends
Comin' in between me and my dreams,
See what I mean, black?
Donnie Lewis
#39. And she remembered the way he had gone from total control to utter disaster with the flip of a switch, like watching an intricate glass sculpture shatter into a thousand pieces - only to pull together again until you could barely see the seams.
Brigid Kemmerer
#40. Secrets are strange wild things that fight against their very existence. Try to contain them and they will strain the seams, weaken the ropes, wear down their jailer until they are revealed.
Suzanne Selfors
#41. I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.
Augusten Burroughs
#42. Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins
That hold Glamorgan's blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread.
- Rhondda Valley
Mervyn Peake
#43. The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.
Keith Olbermann
#44. Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]
Winston Churchill
#45. We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
James Wan
#46. It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life.
Maggie O'Farrell
#47. I think about pasta in the shape of Hello Kitty, stockings with diamond seams up the back, Marilyn's crumbling cake-mascara, and Liz Taylor's new white hair. I haven't got time for the trivials.
Emma Forrest
#49. Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole.
Joseph Heller
#50. There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill
#51. I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Curt Flood
#52. You don't need some vintage thing with another woman's secrets stuck to the seams.
Carrie Firestone
#53. We live in a time that hungers for HOPE; to believe in MIRACLES and DREAMS, for without these soul gems, humanity is ripped at the seams.
Debi Tibbles
#54. I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#55. That cloak of love you were wearing - he's torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?
Antonia Michaelis
#56. Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.
John McPhee
#57. The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.
Rick Bass
#58. Noo-Noo would turn into a tummy with feet if she ate as much as she'd like to eat. Knot What it Seams.
Elizabeth Spann Craig
#59. The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Marianne Williamson
#60. The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world.
Rebecca Berto
#61. The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
Isabella Bird
#62. After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.
Zach Condon
#63. When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
Harry Browne
#64. For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
Robert Breault
#65. Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus
John Kennedy Toole
#66. Love is like a pair of Levis without all the seams it is not a pair of Levis
Michelle Geaney
#67. Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.
Harmon Killebrew
#68. Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.
Natalie Angier
#69. Lunacy is when you can't see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore.
Richard Bachman
#70. Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
Brock Yates
#71. The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.
Marshall Curry
#72. Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.
Poppet
#74. The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.
Markus Zusak
#75. Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
William Cowper
#76. I looked down at my bedspread, tracing the seams with my finger.
Kiera Cass
#77. His gaze appeared to try and pull her apart at the seams so he could make her anew.
Sarah Noffke
#78. The holes would close up. The ripping seams would come together. But I would never be as I was before. Before him. My crazy beautiful love.
A Meredith Walters
#79. I put the gold star up in the front window
beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
Anne Sexton
#80. Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks.
Tracy Chevalier
#81. You know that feeling you get when you pass by a cop doing like 20 over, when your stomach hits the floor and you get weak in the knees and it seams like time just stops for a min? Thats how i feel every time i see her. I love it.
Andrew Vyvyan
#82. Desperation seeps through the seams of fear.
T.A. Cline
#83. She haunts my dreams.
Shadows of the past.
Ripping my heart down the seams.
No one to blame but me.
I'm a lone wolf now, but I still stare up at the moon, Call her name and wonder if she's looking too ...
Lisa Kessler
#84. I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey
#85. One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.
Christopher Moore
#86. I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.
Autumn Doughton
#87. I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
Sue Monk Kidd
#88. Little by little, or maybe all at once, everything comes to mean its opposite; unreason argues itself into reason, and vice versa, and we cannot see the seams.
Joseph Heller
#89. I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large parks, campuses or waterfronts, the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters.
Jane Jacobs
#90. If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .
Edward Norton
#91. The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother's
David Foster Wallace
#92. I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.
Dita Von Teese
#94. You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
Jason Giambi
#95. Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.
Paul Theroux
#96. This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#97. This Skarmouth is raw and hungry, striving and unknowable. Everything the races make me feel on the inside is bleeding up through the seams of the street tonight.
Maggie Stiefvater
#98. If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#99. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.
Sarah Dessen
#100. If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.
Charlie Brooker
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