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Letter "T" » texture
«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, colors, One Piece, patched, patches, patching, pieces, piece of cloth, quilt, quilted, quilts, size, sizes, texture, textures, The Patch, thread, unbroken, woven
«What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.»
Author: John Gunther
(Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appraisal, Appraisals, fabric, flavor, impact, sought, texture, textures
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| Keywords:
affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.»
Author: Sandra Boynton
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
carob, chocolate, combination, dirt, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, fats, in color, mixed, sugar, texture, textures
«Don't just shove food into your mouth. Taste the flavor exploding in your mouth. Appreciate the texture. Honor your food with the time you take.»
«Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
corrupt, inherent, symbolism, texture, textures
«The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life»
«Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it»
«Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, charms, clip, clipped, clipping, common cold, common touch, gnome, gnomes, haunted, mysteries, rainbow, texture, textures, The Haunted, unweave, woof
«The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.»
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