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.

Gary Shaw

I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory).

Lee Evans

Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Greg Simon

Hands Off the Internet is a completely AT&T-funded puppet.

Dorothea Lange

Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.

Sinorice Moss

Hands down it's not even an issue about your size. If you can play football, you have the heart to go out and make plays, size doesn't matter.

Jeff Koinange

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Loretta Young

Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality.

Dave Wilson

He's got huge hands but they're soft. He loves to run pass routes. Maybe not quite as much as block, but he loves to learn the little things about running pass routes.

Walton Goggins

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Scott Olson

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

Pope Francis

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Sheryl Sandberg

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Natalie Massenet

Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Peter Jacobson

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.