Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Reynolds

Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

Miriam Schapiro

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

Miriam Schapiro

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

Joel Miller

Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.

Dennis Miller

Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Elizabeth Barton

The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

Charles Bukowski

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

Alfred Molina

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Tom Morrissey

I think you would see full-time people have their positions reduced, part-time people lose their jobs, and some people just retire.

Toni Simonetti

We are finalizing the number of jobs cuts, ... There will be some, but not on the magnitude of those that we have already done.

Alex Jones

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Steve Purchase

He has no specific or stated plan about what he wants to do. We want to know, where's the plan, Dick? Where's the plan to keep jobs in Michigan?

Rob Zombie

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Rob Enderle

Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing.

Anthony Reinoso

Joe is normally a 135-pounder, and he's filling in at 160. We told him to eat like crazy because we needed a guy for that spot and he did a decent job. He just couldn't quite pull it out.

Bill Ferguson

It can be crazy but a lot of fun. If the restaurant has not planned well or has some staffing woes, it can be treacherous. When it's executed well, it's one of the most fun nights we can have.

Ryan Hendrick

He didn't do anything crazy up until he hit all of our cruisers.

Kim Cattrall

He's a guy. They don't talk, they fight. It's all that crazy testosterone.

Gary Peters

He's going up to see the specialist today and if he says he needs an operation, it would be crazy to play him on Saturday unless his mind is right,

Marcos Baghdatis

I think it's getting crazy - all of the people are watching my match.

Dan Callahan

I thought Shane Garner did an excellent job today, not only doing just what you're supposed to do, to go in, throw strikes and compete, but just slowing it down, creating some semblance of order. It didn't seem like we had that with Matt Brewer in the game. Things were just crazy and some of that was not his fault, but some of it was.

Billie Armstrong

I think we've just grown up. People have watched us grow through the years and watched us evolve. . . . It's just been a crazy musical trip, especially for people who go back a long time ago and remain faithful to the band.

Jared Smith

It got really hot; it was crazy in there.