Quotes of: Looms Keyword

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

Dave Eggers

America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently th...

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

The Birds

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming

Angel of Fire: Book One of Zach's Story

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

Ban Ki-moon

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Garry Shandling

Like a spider web; the threads of her life had been woven since she was young, but she had no part in the loom's process.

Christine Clemetson

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Bob Schaffer

George: He's very fussy about his drums, you know. They loom large in his legend.

A Hard Day's Night

Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.

Love

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance.

On Two Fronts

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Octavia E. Butler

Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

Ban Ki-moon

Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

Frans de Waal

Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.

Christine Pelosi

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.

William Ellery Channing

Yet surely that story she had imagined was a real thing? If you created a story with your mind surely it was just as much there as a piece of needlework that you created with your fingers? You could not see it with your bodily eyes, that was all....t...

A City of Bells

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

Here Come The Dogs