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Fabric Quotes

For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. Fear of the other is woven into the fabric of our American culture, and unscrupulous people in power have exploited that fear in pursuit of political advantage.

– Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

– George Kotsiopoulos

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

– John Burnside

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

– Henry Miller

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric – jerseys – we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

– Issey Miyake

I’m a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

– John Malkovich

We can also cut by heat – heat punch. And we also can cut by cold – extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

– Issey Miyake

There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.

– Issey Miyake

We don’t have one of those houses where there’s a rope that separates the kids’ area from the adult area. There’s a happy medium. It’s all about fabric choices, accessories.

– Candice Olson

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A piece of fabric can get me going.

– Anna Sui

Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

– Naeem Khan

When we constantly ask for miracles, we’re unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

– Douglas Coupland

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody’s lives. I mean everybody’s lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody’s lives.

– Emily Mortimer

I don’t watch TV, so I feel like I’m left out of the American fabric or something.

– Edward Ruscha

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

– Dwight Yoakam

On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It’s just fabric on a hanger.

– Donatella Versace

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

– Charles Ives

Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

– Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

– David Korten

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric – and it was not very nice.

– Nigel Hamilton

Everything around us is scale dependent. It’s woven into the fabric of the universe.

– Geoffrey West

I’m absolutely delighted because I’m part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.

– Gurinder Chadha

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I’d ever seen before.

– Mary Quant

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

– Marianne Moore

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

– Mark Bradford

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

– Lesley Garrett

I’ve never been one to tear the social fabric.

– Judith Guest

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

– Joseph Chilton Pearce

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.

– Reem Acra