Knitting Quotes

103 Knitting quotes by 67 unique authors

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. — Bill Hybels
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which… — Arto Lindsay
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the… — Chellie Pingree
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all… — J D Salinger
I love the way knitting brings people together. — Debbie Macomber
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's… — Chris Messina
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you… — Tony Curtis
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about. — Sam Brownback
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping… — Ron Conway
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. — Sutton Foster
People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life.… — Rudolf Steiner

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