Threads

Famous quotes containing the word threads:

“‘Tis sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sap and seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it—and tries to live off philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Always the silence, the gesture, the specks of birds
suspended on invisible threads above the Site,”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)