Quotes About Weaving

#1. I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.
Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable. - Author: Jacob Nordby

#2. A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper. - Author: Rick Riordan

#3. The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting at the table weaving while outside the lake crashed into shore and the seagulls roosted somewhere for the night and two women stopped for a moment to watch. - Author: Ellen Airgood

#4. It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#5. When I see Lemlem walking around New York City, it's just mind-boggling, because I know it came from this one man sitting and weaving this little product. - Author: Liya Kebede

#6. Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry."
Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die."
"Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams? - Author: Rick Riordan

#7. Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history. - Author: Edward Rutherfurd

#8. And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan - Author: Richard Francis Burton

#9. World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion. - Author: Henrik Ibsen

#10. I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine. - Author: Christian Louboutin

#11. Sydney, just outside the doorway, was likewise distracted, for the battle between the dark elf and Entreri was unlike anything she had ever seen, two master swordsmen weaving and parrying in absolute harmony. - Author: R.A. Salvatore

#12. I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#13. In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together. - Author: Anita Moorjani

#14. And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings - the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates. - Author: Simon Winchester

#15. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends. - Author: Jalina Mhyana

#16. Loving each other began with longing, weaving her loneliness into his. - Author: Leah Kaminsky

#17. People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#18. Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise. - Author: Mikhail Naimy

#19. In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. - Author: Carol P. Christ

#20. It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us. - Author: Jane Hamilton

#21. As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#22. This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood. - Author: Katherine Paterson

#23. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#24. It was as if the words they spoke were weaving a kind of net, a net of normalcy and propriety and sanity, around a situation that was anything but. The - Author: T. Kingfisher

#25. We sometimes make spiderwebs of smoke and saliva, fragile though-packets
Leave thinking to the one who gave intelligence
Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improve - Author: Coleman Barks

#26. Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human. - Author: Vera John-Steiner

#27. The dude gunned his BMW 528i (of course it had to be a BMW) and shot down Commonwealth Avenue, ignoring the lights, honking at other cars, weaving randomly from lane to lane. "You missed a pedestrian," I said. "You want to go back and hit her?" Randolph was too distracted to answer. - Author: Rick Riordan

#28. Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). - Author: J.M. Varner

#29. We were like the three Fates, weaving the story together, threads of gold, red, and midnight blue. - Author: April Genevieve Tucholke

#30. In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together. - Author: Charlie Trotter

#31. I love to knit. There's a comfort to it that I can't entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting. - Author: Debbie Macomber

#32. I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife. - Author: Kiki Dee

#33. Poor girl," I said, letting my eyes lock with hers for a moment before turning to face Cin again, weaving my hand possessively around his waist. "This is probably the first time she's ever seen anyone having fun before. I suppose we shouldn't blame her for being jealous. - Author: Heather James

#34. I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#35. When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don't write any kind at all: I'm trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together. - Author: Leslie Jamison

#36. One false step, and you'll fall all the way to Tartarus - and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork. - Author: Rick Riordan

#37. Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.' - Author: Dean Karnazes

#38. One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family". - Author: Hugo Weaving

#39. Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder. - Author: Grange Lady Haig Rutan

#40. Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#41. God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty. - Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

#42. Ducking, weaving, bouncing away from the knockout blow which must inevitably come. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#43. Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. - Author: Khaled Hosseini

#44. I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.' - Author: Amy Sedaris

#45. Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. - Author: Carl Sandburg

#46. And yes, all of a sudden she was scared. It was like a yellow thread weaving in and out of the bright red overblanket of her rage. - Author: Stephen King

#47. Here you've been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte's web of mystery. - Author: Shannon Hale

#48. I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers. - Author: Terry Hayes

#49. We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. - Author: Edgar Allan Poe

#50. Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room! - Author: Mary Lasswell

#51. So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me. - Author: Lidia Yuknavitch

#52. Of course the play as I wrote it amounted to nothing; but in weaving the plot through successive scenes, and in writing out some of the dialogues, I enjoyed the full bliss of literary creation. Never to have tasted this delight is never to have known one of the greatest joys of life. - Author: Carl Schurz

#53. Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. - Author: Charles R. Swindoll

#54. Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas. - Author: Daniel Tammet

#55. I watch them through the glass: specimens. Flies. I watch them. And I know. In ways normal men cannot: I know. I see thing: beyond things. I see the strands of fate that bind us: victims to victor. So let them scream; let them shout my name. My ears hear nothing but the weaving of the web. - Author: J.M. DeMatteis

#56. A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry. - Author: Holly Black

#57. I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#58. Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future. - Author: Jesikah Sundin

#59. I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#60. The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. - Author: John Philip Sousa

#61. Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I mean, when Ma feels something deeply, that's what she does: melodrama. Which makes it, I guess, not melodrama? - Author: George Saunders

#62. All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken. - Author: Anais Nin

#63. Shivering, she would lie awake imagining her veins sluggish with frozen blood, ice crystals weaving a coral-like shining net around her heart. Her dreams were full of black seas and ice floes and frozen lakes ... - Author: Cassandra Clare

#64. Belonging is a deep genetic drive. More and more, Cassie felt it. Safe and comfortable with the Madison House residents, her membership in the wider community was extending, weaving itself into the layers of her life. p213 - Author: Christine M. Knight

#65. As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#66. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#67. I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets. - Author: Luc Delahaye

#68. Weaving in and out of traffic, she tooted the horn, mounted the footpath when needed and drove as fast as her Fiat would allow. - Author: Toni Pike

#69. You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#70. The stories the children whispered to one another - while they sat weaving their endless carpets, while they could still see - was about this possible future life. It was a saying among them that only the blind are free. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#71. I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#72. They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill. - Author: Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#73. The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand. - Author: Jane Green

#74. I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures ... It's like weaving ... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#75. Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop. - Author: Mary E. Pearson

#76. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But - Author: R.A. Salvatore

#77. It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#78. Never send a human to do a machine's job - Author: Hugo Weaving

#79. If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#80. With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching. - Author: Greg MacGillivray

#81. Toward the voice. The night-shift doctor was heading his way, weaving between the pods, coming for him. Troy clasped his hand over the soreness on his arm. He didn't want to be taken again. - Author: Hugh Howey

#82. God had sucked Leo off in the shower when his hard-on wouldn't go away. He couldn't take his eyes off the big man as water sluiced down his body, weaving over all those muscles. Day knew he had it bad, he was crazy about God. As - Author: A.E. Via

#83. The universe sings a deep, eternal song, sound in waves, in deep sighs, in whispers, in swirling chords and rising, falling tones. The music of the worlds, weaving in a pattern that is both chaos and order, both beauty and terror, without beginning, without end. - Author: Jessica Khoury

#84. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#85. I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually ... things get quite formulaic. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#86. So not only was it possible to implant false new memories in the brain, but people embraced and embellished them, unknowingly weaving fantasy into the fabric of their identity. - Author: David Eagleman

#87. Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life. - Author: Rachel Carson

#88. I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#89. I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz.
"What are you doing?" I asked him.
"I'm letting you get used to the idea of me," he said idly. "I'm pretending to be harmless. Is it working?"
"Until you smile," ( ... ) - Author: Delilah S. Dawson

#90. The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving ... - Author: Hilda Conkling

#91. But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart. - Author: Gustave Flaubert

#92. In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves. - Author: Naomi Shihab Nye

#93. Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them. - Author: Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#94. How could he relax his guard when beams of neurotic energy, like searchlights weaving about a prison compound, allowed no thought to escape, no remark to go unchecked. - Author: Edward St. Aubyn

#95. He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria. - Author: Alexandra Robbins

#96. I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent. - Author: Stephen Graham Jones

#97. All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest. - Author: Stacey D'Erasmo

#98. I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#99. I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life. - Author: Hugo Weaving

#100. A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words. - Author: Balroop Singh