What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the…

What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way…

— George R. R. Martin

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

— Martin Freeman

“Once when I visited her, she scuffed around the house in pink pile-lined slippers you'd wear only while waiting for the police to discover…

— Melissa Bank

“Her home was so...shiny. She was shiny too, her skin, her hair, her shoes, her teeth. I hadn't even realized before; I am matte,…

— Gail Honeyman

“Confessing I didn’t, I scribbled the directions on the notepad I always kept by the phone. I hung up and my feet were already…

— Patricia Cornwell

A scuffed up shoe on the red carpet or at a big premiere is never okay! It can really alter the vibe of a…

— Brad Goreski

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often…

— Miriam Schapiro

“What could I do? My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were…

— Jeanette Winterson

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

“But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the…

— Anonymous

“..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

— Benjamin Franklin

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

— Ovid