Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

- Jeanne Calment

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

- Zac Goldsmith

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

- Tess Gerritsen

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

- Sendhil Mullainathan

I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights.

- Marie Helvin

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

- Maggie Smith

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

- Madeleine Albright

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

- Jane Siberry

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

- Jesse Jackson

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

- Arthur Erickson

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

- Harry Crosby

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

- Don Hewitt

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

- Don McLean

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

- Damien Rice

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

- Carmen Laforet

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.

- Bonnie McKee

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

- Bill Gates