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The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. -- Dennis Miller
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. -- Lucille Ball
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. -- Hanna Rosin
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. -- Mary J. Blige
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. -- William Manchester
My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact. -- Patricia Polacco
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. -- Bob Menendez
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. -- Alfred Molina
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. -- Julia Glass
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. -- Phylicia Rashad
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status. -- Allan Hamilton
He discards a quilt for fear of bugs. -- Idries Shah
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. -- Rohinton Mistry
Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt. -- Dennis Miller
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It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth. -- Laini Taylor
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt -- Dennis Miller
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... -- John Ashbery
Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things. -- Robert Reynolds
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt. -- Faith Ringgold
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. -- Charles Bukowski
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You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules. -- Robin Sloan
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread. -- Jesse Jackson
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