Loom Quotes

Life is a loom, weaving illusion. (Vachel Lindsay)
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom. View quote
Robin Wright
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. View quote
Fred Rogers
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. View quote
William Ellery Channing
His service will always loom large in America's history. He is one of the great heroes of modern America. View quote
Alan Shepard
From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold. View quote
Alan Greenspan
The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time. (Tanith Lee)
A mere savage, ignorant and brutal, and the creature of appetite alone, can never rise from his degradation, until he has learned to draw from the mineral kingdom the instruments of arts and civilization, or, at least, to use the aids that are thus obtained. The axe, the hoe, the plough, the loom, are inseparable means and companions of his advancement. View quote
Gideon Mantell
It is easy to judge evil unmixed,” replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as one of the greatest of man's achievements, and the name of Abraham Lincoln - who of his own will struck the shackles from the limbs of four millions of people - will be honored thousands of years from now as man's name was never honored before. View quote
David Dixon Porter
As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate's immortal loom. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There was a larger pattern we worked at: they on a big loom, I with a small needle. View quote
R. S. Thomas
If you wish to thoroughly accustom yourself to correct and good positions for your fingers, fasten a frame or a loom divided into squares by threads between your eye and the nude figure which you are representing, and then make the same squares upon the paper where you wish to draw the said nude but very faintly. You should then put a pellet of wax on a part of the network to serve as a mark which as you look at your model should always cover the pit of the throat, or if he should have turned his back make it cover one of the vertebrae of the neck. ...The squares you draw may be as much smaller than those of the network in proportion as you wish your figure to be less than life size... View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence. View quote
Wade Davis
My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates. View quote
Ian Ziering
In September 1979, on Defence of Pakistan Day, there was a long article in the Pakistan Times on Bin Qasim as a strategist. The assessment was military, neutral, fair to the soldiers of both sides. It drew a rebuke from the chairman of the National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research. "Employment of appropriate phraseology is necessary when one is projecting the image of a hero. Expressions such as ‘invader' and ‘defenders,' and ‘the Indian army' fighting bravely but not being quick enough to ‘fall upon the withdrawing enemy' loom large in the article. It is further marred by some imbalanced statements such as follows: ‘Had Raja Dahar defended the Indus heroically and stopped Qasim from crossing it, the history of this sub-continent might have been quite different.' One fails to understand whether the writer is applauding the victory of the hero or lamenting the defeat of his rival?”. (Muhammad bin Qasim)
The thieves may be able to follow the design plans and produce a loom. But we are modifying and improving our looms every day. They do not have the expertise gained from the failures it took to produce the original. We need not be concerned. We need only continue as always, making our improvements. View quote
Kiichiro Toyoda
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that. View quote
Liya Kebede
And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the defect when the weavingof a life-time is unrolled. Neglect of one duty often renders us unfit for another. God "is a rewarder," and one great principle on which He dispenses His rewards is this - through our faithfulness in one thing He bestows grace upon us to be faithful in another. View quote
Ichabod Spencer