Sewing Quotes - Page 3

• The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

  Mary Roach

  Funeral, Ordinary, Cadavers

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• El gélido día de diciembre, dos mecánicos de bicicletas de Dayton, Ohio, que temblaban, sintieron por primera vez cómo su artilugio casero tallado con palos de nogal, engomado con cemento para bicicletas Arnstein, estirado con muselina que habían cosido en la máquina de coser de su hermana en el patio trasero de su casa, en la calle Hawthorn de Dayton, Ohio, se elevaba en el aire por encima de las dunas y la amplia playa de Kitty Hawk.

  John Dos Passos

  Sister, Beach, Air

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hangover, Broken, Machines

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.

  R. R. Reno

  Teaching, Squares, Long

  "A Time to Rend" by R. R. Reno, www.firstthings.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Llevo toda la vida arreglando ropa. Pero tendría que decir que mi primer esfuerzo amateur real tuvo que ser dibujar, diseñar y luego literalmente cortar y coser cada pieza de vestuario para mi primera banda que formé en Hollywood.

  Ashley Purdy

  Real, Corte, Dibujo

  Fuente: marleymagazine.com

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• I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Book, Knitting, Littles

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• Tengo un iPod, pero me siguen gustando los CD. Hay algo bonito y tangible en un CD. Me encanta mi máquina de coser, pero también he adoptado las nuevas tecnologías. El iPad fue lo que me convenció, es extraordinario.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Technology, Cds

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• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  H. R. Giger

  Beautiful, Reality, Age

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• Toda la ropa del manicomio es confeccionada por los pacientes, pero coser no sirve para ocupar la mente. Después de varios meses de confinamiento, los pensamientos del ajetreado mundo se desvanecen, y todo lo que los pobres prisioneros pueden hacer es sentarse y reflexionar sobre su desesperado destino...

  Nellie Bly

  Fate, Mind, Doe

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Struggle, Sweat

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• There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Names, Three, Machines

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• I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Clothes

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

  Jason Wu

  Dad, India, Germany

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.

  Matt Smith

  Unique, People, Style

  Source: www.ink-d.co.uk

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• I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.

  Temple Grandin

  Art, Jobs, Drama

  Fuente: www.kshb.com

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• So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Writing, Here I Am

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there I transitioned from challenging myself to make T-shirts to starting to make custom pieces for celebrities.

  Fred Foster

  Cutting, Design, Challenges

  Fuente: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Hablar de cosas tiene su lugar en una organización [pero] las llamadas conferencias se están exagerando enormemente. Un ejecutivo se detiene en la mesa de otro para contarle, quizás, el magnífico resultado que obtuvo en el golf el sábado por la tarde. Este chin-chin se convierte inmediatamente en una conferencia, y ni el chico de la oficina ni la telefonista deben molestar a ninguno de los dos caballeros. Hoy en día, en muchas reuniones de negocios se cuentan más chismes que en un círculo de costura de viejas.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Chicos, Hablar

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Father, Basements

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Education, Women, Apples

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.20, Courier Dover Publications

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• I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.

  Sharon Creech

  Jumping, Nails, Would Be

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• Nadie espera que una mujer ocupada en su costura preste atención a lo que se dice a su alrededor. No importa si la madre y la hermana de un hombre les dicen que lo han oído todo mientras cosían, él seguirá pensando que una mujer que se afana con las agujas guarda todo su cerebro para el trabajo. Se es mucho mejor espía dobladillando sábanas que si se atiza con dagas.

  Tamora Pierce

  Madre, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Tamora Pierce (2014). "Trickster's Duet", p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers.

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• Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Destiny, Choices

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.200, Penguin

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• Ya estaba claro que Howl iba a producir baba verde en cualquier momento. Sophie se apresuró a guardar la costura. "Haré unas tostadas calientes con mantequilla", dijo. "¿Eso es todo lo que puedes hacer frente a la tragedia?" preguntó Howl. "¡Hacer tostadas!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Tragedia, Caliente, Sophie

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). "El castillo del mago"

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