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Source: The Rolling Stones

“The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.”

Helping Pleasure Secret Photography Understood Evidence Relation Winter Photograph Monsters Treasure Help Me Thread Viewpoints Love And Death Ariadne

Author:Roland Barthes

“I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.”

Knows Humanity Extraordinary Holiness Strings Thread Pearls Purifying

Book:Chicago Addresses

Source: Chicago Addresses

“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”

Humans Weight Vanity Thread Insects Nests Frail

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.”

Doe Ends Earth Artist Mankind Draws Connections Invisible Ties Cosmos Manifest Thread Beginnings And Ends Invisible Threads

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.”

“In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.”

“In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.”

Reality Lines Fantasy Visuals Thread Futuristic Futurism

Author:Syd Mead

“Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”

Thinking Knows Needs Ideas Simple Creative Talent Creation Insight Math Arguing Thread Saying No Kevin Creative Power

Author:Kevin Ashton

“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads.”

People Knows Seems Eye Care Know How Madness Invisible My Sister Thread Atrocities Invisible Threads

Book:A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

Source: A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

“From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.”

Draws Thread Stitches Needlework Needle And Thread

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.”

Ends Together Felt Community Lines Thread Strain

Author:Rosamond Marshall

“We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.”

Path Discovery Curiosity Thread Pearls Richness Lending

Author:James Krenov

“I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.”

Law Death Joy Given Natural Grief Air Events My Time Touched Tied Thread Incapable Sequence Given Life

Author:Zhuangzi

“Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.”

Ends Language Sides Pieces Figures Thread Translations Tapestry Exactness

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5

“It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”

Stories Time Cases Novel Deny Novelists Thread Fabric Blunders

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.”

Together Kindness Golden Thread

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.”

Men Love May Stills Return Eternal Green Priests Thread Pope Cursed Eternal Love

Book:The Purgatorio

Source: The Purgatorio

“Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.”

Should Writing Mind Seems Community Break Greater Heard Reader Calling Speech Deny Instant Allowing Retiring Speakers Thread Quotations Grudge Deathless

Author:William Francis Henry King

“Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.”

Past Events Connected Invisible Thread Invisible Threads

Author:Momofuku Ando

“Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!”

World Has Beens Ends Hands Might Desire This World Regret Cups Thread Centre Might Have Been Visionaries

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

Use Wisdom Nature Pieces Organization Patterns Uplifting Thread Fabric Tapestry Small Pieces Tapestry Of Life Fabric Of Life Threads Of Life

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.”

“The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.”

Men Want May Fighting Water Roles Risk Disease Elements Threat Tales Thread Threatening Lewis And Clark

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.”

Ifs Way Trying Desire Truth Is Succeed Subtle Thread Dharma Needles Fiber Sticking Out

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.”

Self Dream Past Form Hours Secret Records Civilization Mass Thread Phantoms Present Day Beads Inverted

Author:Louis Sullivan

“At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.”

Firsts Moments Next House Sin Masters Ships Fragile Thread Spiders Visitors Stout Passerby

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

“Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.”

Knows Beautiful Purpose Individual Pleasure Creation Expression Development Survival Contribution Thread Beneficial Sustenance Tapestry Tapestry Of Life

Author:John Templeton

“An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.”

Should Mean Action Together Literature Audience Tradition Narrative Plot Thread Subtlety Action Movie Coming Together

Author:Shane Black

“The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.”

Ifs Wells Might Three Dangerous Design Objects Projects Terror Reactions Combination Features Programming Appropriate Thread Invited Procedures Fleeing Interfaces Heavyweights

Book:The Art of UNIX Programming

Source: The Art of UNIX Programming

“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

May Children One Day Forgiveness Subtle Thread Love And Friendship

Author:George Foreman

“Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.”

Want Walks Who You Are Drag Thread Backwards Knowing Who You Are

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.”

Needs Deeds Thread Adages Threads Of Life

Author:Don McLean

“Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.”

Ifs Parent Excuse Thread Clinging Excuse Me

Author:Jeanne Calment

“A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.”

Giving Persons Particular Accounts Memoir Thread Incidents

Author:Richard Hell

“The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like "hey, we're this new band."”

Years Kind Littles Has Beens Different Shows Song Differences Common Band Window Hey Thread

Author:Taylor Hanson

“Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.”

Ifs Hard Artist Authority Paid Producers Thread Snaps

Author:Trevor Horn

“I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.”

Black Practice Males Destructive Frightening Thread Psychics Glimpse Abyss Grasping Black Males

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.”

Wells Stills Philosophy Cities Creation Position Satisfied Gray Thread Negativity Hung Vulgar Strands Tapestry Skylines

Author:Don McLean

“Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Stories Hands Together Fall Loses Chance Minutes Succeed Cinema Thread Spontaneous Falling Apart

Author:Emir Kusturica

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