Sewing Quotes
73 quotes by 67 authors
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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
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
— Jeff Bezos
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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
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
— Milla Jovovich
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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
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I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
— Louise Bourgeois
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,…
— N. T. Wright
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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
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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
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In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine…
— H R Giger
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Sewing Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 73 Sewing Quotes, led by these top contributors: