Needle Quotes
221 quotes by 190 authors
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Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
— Lauren Willig
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When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing…
— Arcangela Tarabotti
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If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around…
— Gwen Ifill
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
— Donna Shalala
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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done,…
— Robert E. Lee
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When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.
— Robert Duvall
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Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to…
— Jacques Barzun
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One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.
— Unknown Author
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The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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To think the needle is going to protect you is as silly as thinking that drugs will make you healthy.
— Andrew Saul
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We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind
— Terence McKenna
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There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
— Samuel Shem
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It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back…
— Julia Alvarez
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Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or…
— Charles Bukowski
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It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big…
— Carol Birch
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I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated…
— Isaac Newton
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The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea…
— Katherine Catmull
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart…
— Ramakrishna
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
Who Wrote These Needle Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 221 Needle Quotes, led by these top contributors: