Sewing Quotes

73 quotes by 67 authors

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the… — Bjork
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. — Jeff Bezos
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keepÂ things together and make things whole. — Louise Bourgeois
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on… — Joseph Alleine
There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and… — Julia Roberts
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use… — Melissa George
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous… — Ward Churchill
What you do in the presentâ€”by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,… — N. T. Wright
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just… — Sufjan Stevens
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food… — Rumi
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealistsâ€”Â 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine… — H R Giger
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming. — George Bernard Shaw
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy… — Nellie Bly
You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in… — Whitey Herzog
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you… — Mary Roach
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find… — Virginia Woolf

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