Stitches Quotes

106 Stitches quotes by 91 unique authors

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. — Toni Morrison
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are… — Anne Lamott
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. — Honore de Balzac
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with… — Maxim Gorky
The stitch of a book is its words. — Rumer Godden
I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll… — Cyndi Lauper
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a… — Wanda Sykes
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what… — Clive Thompson
The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story… — Michael Loceff
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
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in… — Reggie Watts
I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my… — Jens Voigt
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes… — Jeff Foxworthy
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to… — Keira Knightley
I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know… — Sylvester Stallone
There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.… — Marya Hornbacher
The more stitches, the less riches. — Aldous Huxley
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch — Adrienne Rich
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like… — Wendell Berry
When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches… — Jennifer Rardin
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"… — Dean Koontz

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