God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing)… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes,… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972,… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
When I was little, and whenever I had to wear a dress while my mother took up the hem or made any… — Charlotte Rae Copy Share Image
I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?" "I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me. "What's that lump inside?" "A sock… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sewing is getting more mainstream, helped by the BBC show, 'The Great British Sewing Bee,' and we have to look at those… — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I'm on the road for up to 11 months a year so have this wardrobe on wheels for my clothes. It's like… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
