Needles Quotes
262 quotes by 230 authors
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped…
— Gregory Maguire
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Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his…
— Stuart Hill
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I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what…
— Amy Tan
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I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen
— David Eddings
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...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower,…
— Tite Kubo
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of…
— Louise Erdrich
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Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and…
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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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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Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,…
— Shel Silverstein
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Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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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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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some…
— Annie Proulx
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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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I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be…
— Rick Riordan
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You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling,…
— Josh Lanyon
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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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