Needle Quotes
221 quotes by 190 authors
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The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza…
— Pam Muñoz Ryan
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a…
— Zadie Smith
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Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of…
— Mary Oliver
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He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters…
— Loretta Chase
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of…
— Stephan Pastis
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Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!
— Ryukishi07
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For…
— Anne Bradstreet
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The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've…
— Nancy Werlin
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Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you…
— Kathy Reichs
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The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
— Beryl Markham
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She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing…
— Stefan Zweig
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Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement…
— Gayle Forman
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It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
— Veronica Roth
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The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the…
— Amanda Palmer
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What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise…
— Lynda Barry
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Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people.…
— George R. R. Martin
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No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man…
— Zadie Smith
Who Wrote These Needle Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 221 Needle Quotes, led by these top contributors: