Thread Count

Famous quotes containing the words thread and/or count:

“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
—John Gregory Brown (20th century)

“I came as census-taker to the waste
To count the people in it and found none,
None in the hundred miles, none in the house....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)