Sheep Wool Quotes

#1. As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

David Roberts

#2. The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.

Patti Smith

#3. Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Pat Conroy

#4. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

Pope Pius II

#5. To find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot.

Voltaire

#6. If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?

Ron Brackin

#7. Love is medicine and dreams are oxygen.

Heather Demetrios

#8. O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time

Bill Hayes

#9. Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions

Tacitus

#10. The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Charles Frazier

#11. Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Seth Godin

#12. Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

David Cottrell

#13. The fruit will reveal the tree soon enough. And it is likely better to be momentarily deceived by an occasional wolf than to be constantly and impetuously trying to jerk the wool off of every one of the Lord's sheep.

Paul Earnhart

#14. As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

Evelyn Underhill

#15. Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.

Susan Juby

#16. It didn't work. He still had wool in his teeth. I couldn't make love to him. He had bone fragments and wool in his incisors, you know?"
"Yeah, sheep remnants would be a major mood killer," Trinity agreed,

Stephanie Rowe

#17. To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sun Tzu

#18. Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries ... are like sheep in a field.

Joseph Chamberlain

#20. No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

Leonie Swann

#21. If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

Matthea Harvey

#22. I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

Elton John

#23. Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts.

Anne Rice

#24. Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.

Voltaire

#25. I must be honest about the fact that I'm made extremely uneasy by excessive noise, and that I do not care for shouted instructions. If I'd been meant to be a sheep, I reasoned, I'd have been born with wool instead of skin.

Alan Bradley

#26. The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Robert Grosseteste

#27. Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Lindsey Davis

#28. He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

#29. He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

Davis Bunn

#30. It is my function as a Christian to imitate Christ; how then can I walk in the sheep's wool with out wearing the Lion's Mane.

Michael Lopez

#31. For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.

Epictetus

#32. Anyone who can not write should.

Harlan Ellison

#33. What do they call a collective of ghosts?"
"I don't know. What?"
"A fraid.

Abigail Roux

#34. For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

Epictetus

#35. So you see it was all right in the end. But if one does that sort of thing, one has to be careful to do it in the right way. For, as Mr. Perks said, when he had time to think it over, it's not so much what you do, as what you mean.

E. Nesbit

#36. It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

Gary Larson

#37. After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

Ernest Lehman