Knitting Quotes

103 quotes by 67 authors

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool… — Meg Cabot
Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself… — P.G. Wodehouse
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to… — Ann Hood
Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look… — Eric Gurney
Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every… — Desiree Linden
The Friday Night Knitting Club — Kate Jacobs
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my… — Amanda Seyfried
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to… — Felicity Huffman
I like a big neck â€“ thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the… — Brian May
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of… — Diane di Prima
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. — Ellen Glasgow
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and… — Julia Roberts
[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the… — J. R. Ackerley
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. — Simon Campbell
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping… — John Milton
Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost — Cheryl Strayed
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling… — Cheryl Strayed
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock… — Dorothy Day

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67 authors contributed a total of 103 Knitting Quotes, led by these top contributors: