Embroidery Quotations

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

When you sew, it takes time, so you don't think the same way as you do in normal life. It's more dreamlike. I think Claire is able to stop time through embroidery and become more mature during its process. And she starts accepting herself, her body and the child through it.

We do a mix of East Indian embroidery and fabric with a western cut. If you're looking for a grad dress, you're going to look different from everyone else.

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.

I read, I crochet and quilt. I do embroidery work.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

The direction is a mix of everything what you like, especially for this collection, masculine and feminine, ... For example ... you mix one pants with pin stripe like a man shape with a coat in chiffon and a fur collar, or another style is that you wear one coat like Chinese, with Chinese embroidery and you wear with a long skirt in a chiffon stretch and a crochet sweater.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.