Yarn Quotes · Page 3

Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New…

— David Limbaugh

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while,…

— Meg Tilly

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy…

— Willa Cather

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a…

— Graham Moore

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get…

— Ilana Mercer

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

— Ridley Scott

With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.…

— Hal Duncan

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet…

— Flann O'Brien

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better…

— Ed Helms

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

— Meg Tilly

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

— William Shakespeare

Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle…

— Karen Allen

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

— Mahatma Gandhi

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always…

— Julia Glass

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The…

— Victor LaValle

In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold…

— Andrea Gibson

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light…

— Diet Eman

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep…

— Curtis Hanson

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it…

— Cicely Tyson

Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure…

— Catherine Asaro

A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts.

— James Berardinelli

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why…

— Max Delbruck