Quotes About Skeins

#1. And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light.

Adrienne Rich

#2. To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

Henry Steele Commager

#3. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels ...

John Geddes

#7. For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Christina Baker Kline

#8. The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos
and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#9. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

Bree Verity

#10. Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.

China Mieville

#11. But make no mistake about it, Jordan. When the time is right and you're ready" - he trailed his forefinger along the edge of her palm and stilled when she shivered in response - "I have every intention of getting you into bed. And sleeping will have little to do with it.

Sara Humphreys

#12. The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Mason Cooley

#13. No wire hangers!

Joan Crawford

#14. There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

Allison Rushby

#15. Inconvient things are always remembered

Lloyd Alexander

#16. I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

#17. Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

Zach Braff

#18. The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

Penn Jillette

#20. Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Russell Conwell

#21. I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God
or literally the hell we might have to pay
the rest of us would just take what we wanted.

Mitch Albom

#23. For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

Matt Nagle