Fabric Quotes

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It`s like Christmas: it`s all advertising, and the first rule of selling somebody something is to make them seem inadequate. Make them feel like they need it. Like fabric softener. Nobody really needs fabric softener and yet, all of a sudden, you feel like a jackass if you don`t have fabric softener, so people buy it. And that`s how Christmas has become, because 50% of all retail sales happen in December. You are bombarded with this stuff - money will make you happy, and keeping up with the Joneses. Obviously that stuff doesn`t make you happy, otherwise there wouldn`t be all these unhappy rich people. They`d all be happy in their jacuzzis and OK, some of them are.

- Ben Affleck

I`m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I`m glad I didn`t go, because if I had I wouldn`t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

- Francesca Annis

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn`t have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

- Julie Christie

Can you look at these fabric swatches? I`m thinking about buying new drapes.

- Holly Robinson Peete

My Dear Friends, Colleagues and Fans: My physicians have recently told me I may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer`s disease. So ... I wanted to prepare a few words for you now, because when the time comes, I may not be able to. I`ve lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I`ve found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor there`s no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can`t part with you, which is why I won`t exclude you from this stage in my life. For now, I`m not changing anything. I`ll insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you`ll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway. I`m neither giving up nor giving in. I believe I`m still the fighter that Dr. King and JFK and Ronald Reagan knew, but it`s a fight I must someday call a draw. I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure. Please feel no sympathy for me. I don`t. I just may be a little less accessible to you, despite my wishes. I also want you to know that I`m grateful beyond measure. My life has been blessed with good fortune. I`m grateful that I was born in America, that cradle of freedom and opportunity, where a kid from the Michigan Northwoods can work hard and make something of his life. I`m grateful for the gift of the greatest words ever written, that let me share with you the infinite scope of the human experience. As an actor, I`m thankful that I`ve lived not one life, but many. Above all, I`m proud of my family ... my wife Lydia, the queen of my heart, my children, Fraser and Holly, and my beloved grandchildren, Jack, Ridley and Charlie. They`re my biggest fans, my toughest critics and my proudest achievement. Through them, I can touch immortality. Finally, I`m confident about the future of America. I believe in you. I know that the future of our country, our culture and our children is in good hands. I know you will continue to meet adversity with strength and resilience, as our ancestors did, and come through with flying colors - the ones on Old Glory. William Shakespeare, at the end of his career, wrote his farewell through the words of Prospero, in The Tempest". It ends like this: `Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp`d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.` Thank you, and God bless you, everyone." (9 August 2002)

- Charlton Heston

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there`s a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

- Christopher Eccleston

It was two people that were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves, ... Everything that`s around them is being turned into quicksand. The whole fabric of their lives and the structure of their society is completely mixing them around.

- Ray Stevenson

Green and clean neighborhoods are essential to the quality of life, economic development, social fabric, and environmental health of San Francisco.

- Gavin Newsom

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

- Jesse Ventura

I`ve never been one to tear the social fabric.

- Judith Guest

If we think we have ours and don`t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

- Marian Wright Edelman

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

- Robin Gibb

In most people`s vocabularies, design means veneer. It`s interior decorating. It`s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

- Steve Jobs

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it`s burnt into the fabric of your culture.

- Alex Winter

I got into this business because I love huge action movies. And I don`t want to exclude that from the fabric of my career if I can incorporate it in some way.

- David Gordon Green

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself

- Anthony Bourdain

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

- Mario Batali

I didn`t want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn`t see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

- Terry Brooks

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, `cause when you`re making a record it`s a part of you, for that time it`s your whole fabric.

- Thurston Moore

Jake Jacobs has been thoroughly involved in executing Spyder`s business strategy, and has been integral to the company`s success. He`s a leading expert on fabric technology, and has incredible industry knowledge and experience. His soul is the brand. It just so happens that he`s also my son.

- David Jacobs

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

- Adam Schiff

I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I had developed into new fabrics, and then introduced reflective materials into the fabrics,

- Narciso Rodriguez

When I don`t have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

- Geoffrey Beene

When England and America shall have braced the policy of free industry the whole fabric of monopoly the world over will totter to its fall.

- John Bright

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

- Christo

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

- Issey Miyake

We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

- Issey Miyake

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

- Charles Rangel

A lot of the viscose we`re using is sheer, but it `s a very sort of industrial sort of fabric ... and it drapes really well, which is unusual.

- Richard Tyler

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

- Barbara De Angelis

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

- A. J. Kitt

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

- Alain Corre

We can`t afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

- Alana Erickson

The chain that`s fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

- Albert Gray

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

- Alyssa Fressle

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

- Andrea Bagley

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

- Andreas Rummelt

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

- Andrei Krivtsov

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Andrew Klenert

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

- Andrew Lebow

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

- Andrew Lebow

The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will continue to be an integral part of the country`s social fabric.

- Angie Lassman

We need to acclimate people to opening up checking accounts and using savings accounts and starting college savings plans and things that aren`t historically part of the fabric of Hispanic-American life,

- Annice Statin

This is an important addition to the downtown fabric.

- Ansari Bukhari

caused irreparable damage to the very fabric of my blood family.

- Ant Strachan

In college, I decided to listen to instrumentalists, because I knew it would help me shape what my personal style was, ... I love Donald Fagan. Steely Dan is a part of the fabric of my youth. I grew up with songs like `FM` and `Peg.` All those songs are gonna last forever.

- Armin Mekelburg

The bed is just gorgeous. It`s bright and colorful. It looks like a whole bunch of mattresses piled up. But it`s an optical illusion. It`s really just fabric, stuffing, nails and a staple gun. It`s so tall, you need a ladder to get in.

- Ashley Hanewich

We dream of a province where the values of co-operation and caring, optimism and hope are the foundation of an unbreakable social fabric,

- Ashley Kuschel

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

- Avery Neumark

The scripture that comes to my mind is `Jesus wept,` ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

- Barbara Lindsay