Top 74 Strand By Strand Quotes
#1. The materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand ... Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.
P. Harding
#2. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like
mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. There was something compelling about a man who refused to wear pants in winter.
Kai Strand
#4. When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again.
Kai Strand
#5. In point of fact, although he did not recognise it at the time, his own character and prestige had reached an apogee with Elizabeth such that nothing he might or would say could possibly affect her profound affection for him. He
Richard S. Strand
#6. What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
Daphne Du Maurier
#8. The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.
Bret Anthony Johnston
#9. Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those who wished the past were present, and loathed by those who wished the present past.
Sarah Perry
#10. Tipsy isn't a miracle wonder cat. That was always the deal: you'd get your cat back, but he'd be sort of creepy. We discussed this.
Jeff Strand
#11. The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Mark Strand
#12. In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
William Lilly
#13. Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies.
James Strand
#14. His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.
Juliet Marillier
#15. Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.
Mark Strand
#16. I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
Winston Churchill
#17. In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
Mark Strand
#18. No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
Paul Strand
#19. The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
Paul Strand
#20. To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
Mark Strand
#21. On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.
Gabrielle Zevin
#22. Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#23. I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
Mark Strand
#24. In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.
Mark Strand
#25. He found himself looking down at Laurent, his eyes passing slowly over the delicate skin, the lamp-darkened blue eyes, the elegant curve of cheekbone, interrupted by a stray strand of blond hair.
C.S. Pacat
#26. Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way.
Mark Strand
#27. On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.
William C. Bryant
#28. The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
Frances Moore Lappe
#29. By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
Robert Quine
#30. Teach them a spider does not spin a web. Spiders spin meaning. Cut one strand and the web holds. Cut many, the web falls. With the web's fall, so too falls the spider. Break the web. Break the spider. So breaks the circle of life.
Frederic M. Perrin
#31. tamed his blond hair by cropping it short, but a rebellious sun-streaked strand curls over one tawny brow. Tall, broad-shouldered,
Magda Alexander
#32. The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
George Osborne
#33. I was changed by Nathan's death, because I had to be. Our life together here was over. It was my life alone that had to go on. The strand had slackened. I had begun the half-a-life you have when you have a whole life that you can only remember.
Wendell Berry
#34. Let's start by checking your pulse," said Dr. Arnzin, wrapping the cuff of the blood pressure monitor around Stanley's arm and inflating it. He glanced at the readout and nodded. "No pulse. Good.
Jeff Strand
#35. This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.
Douglas Wilson
#36. Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Mark Strand
#37. Hansel and Gretel had breadcrumbs, she had plastic spiders. Worst-case scenario, she could find her way back by following the trail of dead birds that had choked on them.
Jeff Strand
#38. It was as if a strand connected that day with this one and the Maker's pleasure was coursing through it like blood in a vein.
Andrew Peterson
#39. Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
Kenneth Langone
#40. I blew a strand of black hair from my face. "A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to see."
"Careful," the demon whispered. "You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do not recognize it.
Heather Heffner
#41. Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.
Stephen R. Covey
#42. If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Paul Strand
#43. Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
Paul Strand
#44. And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
Mark Strand
#45. The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand
#46. I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
Mark Strand
#47. I will never stop being pissed. He has now created a 'lifetime of seeking vengeance' scenario.
Jeff Strand
#49. I haven't met God and I haven't been to heaven, so I'm skeptical,
Mark Strand
#50. But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
Nicholas Sparks
#51. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#52. Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you ... a little bit more.
Gerard Butler
#53. Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
Paul Strand
#54. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
Mark Strand
#55. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
Mark Strand
#56. I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
Mark Strand
#57. There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Mark Strand
#58. David Copperfield has no magic in him. I'm talking about Santa flying around the world in one night kind of magic. Pumpkins transformed into coaches kind of magic.
Sydney Strand
#59. Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
Paul Strand
#60. The beach is a virtual strand-to-sand buffet of hot chicks, and these girls are always ready for a party..
A.J. Linn
#61. To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.
Paul Strand
#62. We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.
Mark Strand
#63. All good art is abstract in its structure.
Paul Strand
#64. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
Brett Weston
#65. It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Paul Strand
#66. It came to my house.
It sat on my shoulders.
Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours.
I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.
Mark Strand
#67. This is so," Illyrio agreed, "but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. More wine?
George R R Martin
#68. I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don't get finicky about broken nails. I don't let small things affect me. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. There's no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there's no pressure on me.
Sonakshi Sinha
#69. Don't go."
"I have to." A regretful sigh. "And it's best if you don't remember any mermen." He tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. His voice stroked her skin like velvet. "Forget me."
And she did.
Nicole Luiken
#70. With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
Samuel Barnett
#71. The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.
Paul Strand
#72. There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.
Mark Strand
#73. If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
Paul Strand
#74. the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
George R R Martin
