Quotes About Tapestries

#1. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

Dan Simmons

#2. I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Jeff Lemire

#3. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.

Rick Riordan

#4. There were holes in several of the tapestries, including one that left the Angel Raziel headless. Magnus feared sacrilegious mice had been at the tapestries.

Cassandra Clare

#5. As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

Aldous Huxley

#6. SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.

Mirriam Neal

#7. I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.

Jane Yolen

#8. Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

Arne Glimcher

#9. People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Mike Rowe

#10. From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. The walls loom, grey as the rain outside. LIke the sky of England itself. Everything seems colourless and humbled, despite the layers of velvets and tapestries, the peacock plumage of courtiers and ladies. Greenwich Palace feels like my father's disappointment made tangible.

Katherine Longshore

#12. It was needlepoint, Mr. Burke. Tapestries are woven, you see, and I find it far more satisfying to stab than to weave.

Meredith Duran

#13. Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn't fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don't give away free tapestries.

Rick Riordan

#14. The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.

Karen Neches

#15. I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

Bonnie Tyler

#16. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.

David H. Millar

#17. We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

Ariel Pink

#18. One spring patio is for rodeos
niggled with iodine figures, weaved
tapestries inside vast Tuileries.
But that reminds me, how exactly
do words form brittle histories

Adam Fitzgerald

#19. Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#20. One has to hurt, to go through a period of stress, a period of self-doubt, a period of confusion. And then out of that mess can flow the richest tapestries.

Anonymous

#21. Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. the crowds just background tapestries for you to play your life against, lurid backdrops providing a fake sense of drama to help you imagine you're doing more than you would be if you were in some sleepy village or Denver or really anywhere else. New

Kim Stanley Robinson

#23. The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills.

Louis L'Amour

#24. And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.

Theophile Gautier

#25. Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

Sheldon L. Glashow

#26. When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.

Hilary Mantel

#27. lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#28. There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

Pope Boniface VIII

#29. When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

Edward Burns

#30. Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Robin Flower

#31. There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.

Alana De La Garza

#32. I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

Robert Smith

#33. I promote peace and positivity.

T.I.

#34. Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose.

George R R Martin