Needle Quotes
221 quotes by 200 authors
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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer…
— Charles Lamb
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
— Ernst Gombrich
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,…
— Nikola Tesla
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
— Yukio Mishima
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
— A. A. Gill
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta…
— Astley Cooper
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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of…
— Gary Kleck
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I watched the needle take another man.
— Neil Young
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the…
— Chief Seattle
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
— Albert Einstein
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Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell.
— Ray Hudson
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And…
— Daniel Boone
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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any…
— Mark Twain
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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
— Jack Dempsey
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Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we’re making the haystack bigger,
— Jesselyn Radack
Who Wrote These Needle Quotes
200 authors contributed a total of 221 Needle Quotes, led by these top contributors: