Top 38 Yarns Quotes
#1. Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez
#2. Throughout one's life, the mind remembers in such strange ways. Those experiences worth remembering will be recalled with ease; crystal clear insights into the past. Together with a smile they will be woven into yarns and shared with others.
Calum J. Lambie
#3. Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.
O. Henry
#4. No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
Wallace Stegner
#5. It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella's yarns. He thought he'd be a hero, but all he got for his pain was ... was, okay, we'll convict this Negro but get back to your dump.
Harper Lee
#6. I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.
Marc Jacobs
#7. There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
O. Henry
#8. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns
and even convictions.
Joseph Conrad
#9. If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.
Don Hutchison
#10. Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
Glen Duncan
#11. It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
Daniel Dennett
#12. I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin' cross the Hole World ain't senseful neither but that's how it was, so storymen an' old books tell it.
David Mitchell
#13. I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
John D. Voelker
#14. Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'
Raymond E. Feist
#15. Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.
Barbara Bothwell
#16. A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.
Dashiell Hammett
#17. Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness ... the greed, the hate all around us.
John D. Voelker
#18. The bears bear hard hard yarn yarns you are unlikely to be confused.
Lemony Snicket
#19. I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Algernon Blackwood
#20. I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.
Joanne Harris
#21. All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.
David Mitchell
#22. when they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.
Barry Tyrrell
#24. I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes
I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might
I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined
I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.
Sanober Khan
#27. Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.
Donald Trump
#28. A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
Carlos Castaneda
#29. I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.
Thomas Roberts
#30. My trigger got no heart.
Big Pun
#31. Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
Kate Morton
#33. [A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures
Ben Lerner
#34. A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.
Lin Yutang
#35. I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
Sidney Sheldon
#36. The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
Robert F. Kennedy
#37. The fate of the world depends upon whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives ..." ~ Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
#38. For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel
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