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.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Newt Gingrich

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Paul Fussell

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Robert Goldstein

I am hopeful we shall learn from one another and about one another, as a gay man and a gay pastor.

Rob James-Collier

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Russell Brand

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Troye Sivan

I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.

Robert Reich

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Robert Towne

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

Robert Scheer

At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.

Robert Plant

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.