Words matter. These are the best Loom Quotes from famous people such as Craig Kielburger, Ada Lovelace, Scott Cook, Pankaj Mishra, Daniel Kahneman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
I spent some time studying Toyota, because how could a loom maker – they made looms. That was their business for 50 years, 35 years – and then they decided to go into the car business after everyone else was in the car business.
Britain’s unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains – that’s a very well-established finding – you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
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.
My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.
The questions that loom can be intimidating. ‘What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?’ There is this pressure that you’re supposed to keep impressing.
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they’re icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.
Enhancing fabric production will also lead to strengthening the power loom sector.
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.
Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare’s dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student’s psyche, quite effortlessly.
