Weaving Quotations

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

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.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

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.

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

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

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

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.

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.

None of us really sell anything. Weaving is a passion and it just puts you in touch with your history to be able to make fabric.

Scott, that's not the answer to the question. Come on. You're totally ducking and weaving here.

So he did this weaving for his mother and he put stained glass in it, flat glass and loved the way the light played with it. He actually melted some flat glass and used a lead pipe and blew a bubble and that was the beginning.

Under Ray's technical leadership and weaving together both software and software-based services, I see incredible opportunity to better address the changing needs of our customers' digital lifestyles and the new world of work.

This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out.

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

I think that this Administration and Congress are weaving a pernicious web of anti-choice initiatives that taken together strangle reproductive rights.

We're weaving our way through a timeline so we don't interfere with the schools. We try to maintain good working relations with the town and the schools.

Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads to another.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

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.

Often hackers are weaving from one system to another, and it's hard for us to tell where the communication is coming from. We want to see the trap-and-trace law updated so we can trace a communication to the source, so we can serve the court order on the next carrier down the line.

You're totally ducking and weaving here. We don't care if some ranch owner called the local paper.

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.

He's slowly weaving into his normal position. I was surprised he was able to last the whole second half and play well.

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

The driving was not just such that it was weaving within the lane. It was driving on the entirely wrong side of the road and almost having head-on collisions.

The driving was so bizarre - such as driving on the opposite side of the road, having head-on collisions. Simply bizarre behavior - it wasn't simply weaving in the lane.

The guild is primarily a group of people dedicated to weaving and this one is also a teaching guild. We work to teach each other as well as other people.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

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.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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.