Julia Glass

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

American Novelist

Coco Rocha

When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.

Canadian Model

Elizabeth Warren

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.

American Public Servant

Eugene Scalia

It's widely recognized that employers and employees need more assistance addressing problems with rising health care costs. Attempts to address the problem are going to require a federal response, not a patchwork of state and local mandates.

American Politician

P. J. O'Rourke

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

American Comedian

Aesop Rock

I just write notes all day on my phone, and when I write songs it becomes a patchwork of these smaller notes that I had, mixed with stuff in the moment.

American Musician

Lucille Ball

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Sara Zarr

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

American Writer

Jonathan Anderson

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

Irish Designer

John Grant

I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.

Patchwork originally refers to needlework, creating a narrative of care and tradition in handmade crafts.

Craft Connection

Patchwork implies visual diversity, often colorful and with distinct patterns or textures.

Visually Diverse

Items described as 'patchwork' often carry a homemade or rustic aesthetic, evoking nostalgia.

Homemade Aesthetic

Patchwork can describe the rich mixture of cultures in a community or nation, each piece maintaining its identity.

Cultural Melting Pot

Patchwork used metaphorically suggests combining different viewpoints to form a more complex whole.

Diverse Perspectives

Patchwork often highlights how disparate elements can come together harmoniously, like in a community or artwork.

Unity in Diversity

When using 'patchwork' as an adjective, it describes something composed of many different parts or ideas.

Eclectic Composition

Patchwork suggests an approach that may be unconventional, as parts are pieced together in a unique way.

Unconventional Approach

 We should work like our mothers. That's right -- we've spent decades trying to fit women into a work world built for company men. And many have done backbends to fit in, but others have carved a more unconventional path, creating a patchwork of meaning and money

The new American Dream PIPE...

 is an oasis in the middle of the Kalahari Desert a sanctuary for the incredible wildlife and biodiversity of this region a vast patchwork mosaic of channels floodplains lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands here you can find the abundance of life all

Africa’s Pristine Delta...

 They're finding that the brain is like a patchwork mosaic -- a mixture. Women have mostly female patches and a few male patches. With all this new data, what does it mean to be a woman? This is something that I've been thinking about almost my entire life.

The biology of gender,...

 And there was so much power in this patchwork. It provided a natural mechanism to resist the spread of future fires across the landscape. Once a patch of forest burned, it helped to prevent the flow of fire across the landscape.

Why wildfires have...

 the last great pandemic? The federal government abdicated most responsibility. And so we ended up with this wild patchwork of regulations all over America. Every city, county, state did their own thing. And the rules

Laurie Garrett: What can...

 Under constant guard, she composed songs expressing her love for her people and began making a patchwork quilt that told the story of her life. While she was only allowed news that had been reviewed by her jailers,

The dark history of the...

 it's May and Graham's burning has created a good patchwork of different aged Heather for cover and food the Grouse have been nesting and he's hoping there'll be lots of baby chicks

Grouse Chicks Die from...

 facility is undoubtedly a good thing especially when compared to the violent alternatives but on the other it's a patchwork solution it's it's a band-aid and they said as much

Going Inside MEGA Rehab...

 answer is gonna lie in a patchwork of solutions it's not gonna please everybody but you know what saving just one life is better than saving none thank you

Gun violence as told by...

 unchanged for a thousand years ancient life still clings to an old world this patchwork of habitats provides a stronghold for creatures of a bygone age