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“The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.”

Ifs Facts Universe Starting Thread Fabric Rationality Starting Point

Author:George Zebrowski

“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.”

“Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.”

Ifs Enough Together Love Is Awareness Universal Foundation Dawn Fulfillment Ties Thread Reign Being Together Universal Love

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.”

Years May Connected Apples Thread Best Job Tapestry Real Jobs Predicting The Future Tapestry Of Life

Author:Steve Jobs

“I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped on a person. I don't have a problem with any of my "hyphenated" biography - I don't have any problem with that at all. The world would be a better place if our thread of hyphenation were truly embraced beyond mere naming and category.”

Ifs World Persons Problem Would Be Culture Mere Tendencies Labels Categories Thread Biographies Better Place American Culture

Author:Fady Joudah

“I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.”

I Can Different Shapes Ears Narrative Phrases Tone Thread Echoes Resonance

Author:Anna Journey

“I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.”

Knows Writing Sometimes Enough Remember Sound Lines Audience Stage Figures Materials Keys Conclusion Ads Thread Convincing

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.”

Thinking Heart Kind Art Stills Produce Emotional Genius Lucky Mass Pops Something New Thread Drs Pop Music Luke So Lucky Warhol

Author:Bonnie McKee

“I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.”

Knows Hands Talking Pieces Seeing Arms Meetings Eight Torture Survivor Prisoner Camps Holocaust Thread Tattoo Needles Holocaust Survivor Abu Ghraib Needle And Thread

Author:Jill Soloway

“Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.”

Dream Passion Literature Genius Thread Adolescence Expressionism

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.”

Knows Moments Feelings Remember Artist Guy Lost Process Happened Dying Aids Fortunate Shock Working It Hospitals Thread Family And Friends Chill Dying Alone

Author:Aaron Brookner

“There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.”

Seems Wanted Past Opinion Pure Aging Albums Innocent Addresses Thread Pulling Topics My Past

Author:Brooke Waggoner

“Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.”

Ifs Needs Persons Said Hard Would Be Names President Willing Republican Court Supreme Rejects President Obama Senate Thread Supreme Court Qualified Needles

Author:Steve Inskeep

“A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.”

Persons Book Moments Particular Memoir Theme Thread Autobiography

Author:Richard Hell

“I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.”

People Knows Way Play Certain Common Behave Imperfect Thread Common Threads

Author:Will Arnett

“I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.”

Writing Long Art Stills Book Together Lost Saws Written Lovers Horror Paper Pages Long Time Guides Tales Theme Thread Long Time Ago Manuscripts Clip Guide Me Art Lovers Paper Clips

Author:Laura Mullen

“I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.”

Mind Has Beens Young Felt Common Thread Observant Common Threads

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.”

Thinking May Stills Character Individual Determine Illness Divorce Unhappiness Thread

Author:James Hillman

“The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.”

Different Evil Sound Dark Design Aspect Scary Attraction Thread Music Business Unifying

Author:Charlie Clouser

“I loved the book [The Adderall Diaries] I optioned it, I think some years ago. But there's a lot of different threads in the book. It starts off as one thing, where he's trying to cover this murder trial, and then his own life starts to impinge on that, so it becomes something else. I found that fascinating.”

Thinking Trying Years Book Different Found One Thing Years Ago Murder Trials Fascinating Thread Diaries Adderall

Author:James Franco

“Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you.”

Made Book Shows Games Common Building Tvs Built Shining Thread Tv Shows Spotlight Shine On Common Threads

Author:Elan Lee

“I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.”

World Needs Believe Care Values Church Common Poverty Focus Equal Catholic Agree Raised Missions Around The World Disagree Thread Catholic Church Common Threads Agree To Disagree

Author:Melinda Gates

“To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.”

Way Mean Political Choices Animal Poet Peculiar Salt Thread Fragments Tapestry Political Animals

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.”

Trying Kind Millions Policy Position Trump Tough Criminals Tonight Thread Needles Migrants

Author:Michelle Goldberg

“Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.”

Together Purpose Felt Memories Common Emotion Thread Happy Memories Common Threads

Author:Mastin Kipp

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything. Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it. Thank you, and keep going.”

“To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both expressive and causal and can organize reality atmosphere like a law of physics.”

Reality Law Process Sound Music Is Physics Atmosphere Thread Composition Organize Deliberate Expressive Laws Of Physics Cacophony

Author:Warren Jeffs

“I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.”

Has Beens Running Certain Expression Trump Phenomenon Resentment Thread American History

Author:Barack Obama

“It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.”

Thinking Giving Whole Choices Steps Performances Police Filled Shoes Dimensions Officers Thread Right Choices Allison

Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“I can find them strategizing about any number of things in these WikiLeaks email dumps, but there's not a thread on climate change whatsoever. Why is that? If climate change were that big a deal to these people, don't you think they would be talking about it internally?”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Bigs Would Be Deals Numbers Talking Climate Climate Change Thread Email Dump Wikileaks

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.”

Sometimes Whole Problem Jobs Film Focus Directors Performances Productions Factors Thread Overwhelmed Steering

Author:Whit Stillman

“There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs through all these emails; there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations.”

Giving States Play Running Individual Pay Clinton Access Campaigns Managers Primaries Corporations Thread Publishing Email

Author:Julian Assange

“I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.”

Thinking Knows World Want Art I Can Shows Film Fun Break Doors Calling Cameras Passionate Breathe Working It Thread Show Me Breaking Down Lenses Cameraman

Author:Pam Grier

“One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career.”

Country Shows Running Given Levels Careers Issues Clear Democrat Population Thread Distribution Grassroots

Author:Barack Obama

“Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].”

Needs Ideas Sometimes Stories Running Water Kings Ultimate Following Conclusion Swimming Thread Deep Water

Author:Robin Furth

“Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?”

Trying Figures Particular Bounds Activist Thread Needles Organizer

Author:Bill Ayers

“You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.”

Ifs Mind Peace Of Mind Thread Godly

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.”

Knows Mean Form Waiting Common Thread Composing Spilling Composing Music Common Threads

Author:J. Cole

“Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.”

Firsts Has Beens Light Common Records Fans Musician Hip Hop Hips Hops Thread Music Fans Guiding Light Common Threads Light Of My Life

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.”

Pain Past Adults Shadow Bounds Thread My Past

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

Motivational Lasts Happiness Success Hope Break Positive Habit Each Day Thread Cables Will Power Bad Habits Good Habits Daily Habits Cable Tv

Author:Horace Mann

“For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.”

Knows Way Book Different Running Together Bits Lines Common Know How Objects Metaphor Dialogue Narrative Description Isolated Thread Constructs Sequence Scrap Collages

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”

Men Light Lost Black White Destiny Style Shadow Drawing Endless Backgrounds Thread Shed Anguish Ink Labyrinth Gleam Pantomime

Author:Marcel Marceau

“There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'”

Thread Exit

Author:Jean-Michel Basquiat

“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.”

Love Children Ideas Values Common Family Society Unconditional Love Thread Unconditional Family Love Family Values Common Threads

Author:Ednita Nazario

“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.”

“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”

Past Parent Patterns Pregnancy Thread

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.”

Thinking Needs Kind Littles Play Character Lost Felt Bits Hurt Loss Lost Love Thread Pulling Been Hurt

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

Author:Simone Signoret

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