Wool Quotes

“Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.”
― Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

“So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.”
― GaryLFrancione

“It's not because we knew” Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. “It's because we did it.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's wool, because it goes better with the shoes than the one stitched with baby hair.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?”
― Ron Brackin

“Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.”
― Susan Juby, Home to Woefield

“Wool is wool.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If a stitch in time saves nine, get Help Apparel on time”
― Joe Fletcher - Founder & CEO - Help Apparel Inc.

“My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.”
― Delia Sherman, Mad Hatters and March Hares

“Messrs Hunter's up-to-date woollen mill at Brora deals with the small crofter's single bag of wool sent through the post as well as with the large farmer's flocks and bales, and thus has a personal touch lacking in larger industrial centres. A customer from the Outer Isles, for example, may demand in exchange for the product of her two 'ewe lambs' some knitting wool or maybe a pair of socks. Another would like a jumper, or a blanket of a certain shade. If you want the product of your own sheep for your own wear (and this must surely have a particular charm for the wearer!) that too may be arranged. Here I saw wool in all the stages of washing, teasing, dying, spinning and weaving into colourful tweeds and tartans for Scotland's export trade.”
― Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison