Delicate Stitches Quotes & Sayings

And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for — David Foster Wallace

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us. — Richard Paul Evans

Whaddya think, luv, Lair of the White Worm, Evil Dead II, or Night of the God King: The Return? — Julie Cochrane

Of the ear, old worrier. Water mollifies the flint lip, And daylight lays its sameness on the wall. The grafters are cheerful, Heating the pincers, hoisting the delicate hammers. A current agitates the wires Volt upon volt. Catgut stitches my fissures. A workman walks by carrying a pink torso. The storerooms are full of hearts. This is the city of spare parts. My swaddled legs and arms smell sweet as rubber. Here they can doctor heads, or any limb. — Sylvia Plath

Through books we get to live a second life while here on earth. — Teresa Cannady

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both. — Ruby Wax

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression — Michel Foucault

Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet together. Without them, the dress and the world are nothing but barren cloth — Lisa Mantchev