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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view. -- Carole King
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. -- Richard P. Feynman
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. -- Carson McCullers
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If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it. -- Greg Kinnear
A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life. -- Tab Hunter
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry -- Corrie Ten Boom
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. -- Bill Frist
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life. -- Tony Attwood
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. -- Leonardo Sciascia
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. -- Albert Einstein
Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. -- Jean Shepherd
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight. -- Colin Fletcher
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. -- John Milton
...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal. -- Jon Landau
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. -- Maya Angelou
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. -- Leo Buscaglia
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.' -- Douglas Brinkley
I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences. -- Wayne Dyer
I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom. -- Richard Paul Evans
The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. -- James Hervey
That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything. -- Laini Taylor
I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry. -- James Vincent McMorrow
I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life? -- Kate Bush
The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting. -- Satya Bhabha
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts. -- Andrew Bird
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating. -- Patrick Wang
Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral. -- John Darnielle
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed. -- Aasif Mandvi
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character. -- Elizabeth George
The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. -- Mike Pence
It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or psychological, outlawry. The book is not meant to be a tapestry of the Ozarks. -- Daniel Woodrell
I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you. -- Mark Hamill
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. -- Steve Jobs
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. -- Shane Black
It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers. -- Seth Shostak
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. -- John Piper
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy. -- Jon Landau
Now my tapestry's unraveling. -- Carole King
The tapestry of history is woven of many threads. -- Jacqueline Carey
Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry. -- Jeffery Taylor
Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint. -- Al Yankovic
Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. -- Zelda Popkin
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. -- Mary Doria Russell
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. -- Dorothea Dix
Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry. -- Jim Rohn
Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled. -- Iris Origo
Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars. -- Dan Brown
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together. -- Joe McNally
Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity. -- George Takei
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible. -- Madame de Stael
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. -- William Morris
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. -- Dannye Williamsen
The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry. -- Richard Paul Evans
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. -- Isabel Allende
The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. -- Douglas Adams
Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry. -- Julia Butler
I could feel my attachment to the scene receding as I began to realize that everything was perfect and going according to plan in the greater tapestry. -- Anita Moorjani
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. -- R. Alan Woods
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye. -- John Flavel
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. -- R. Alan Woods
Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you. -- Joseph Girzone
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen. -- Anna Louise Strong
In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together. -- Anita Moorjani
As the creator of the Universe, God uses the love of all to paint the tapestry of our world as He would have it .... our loving Hearts are his humble servants. -- Tom Hackett
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot." -- Neal Shusterman
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot. -- Neal Shusterman
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I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important. -- Chita Rivera
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double. -- Henry David Thoreau

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