Knitting Quote by Ellen Glasgow Download Open image “Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.” — Ellen Glasgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knitting Trouble Women
I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a… — Beatrice Lillie Copy Share Image
“Despite what we knitters know to be true, the non-knitting world somehow persists in thinking that a "knitter" looks a certain way. Most likely,… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments,… — Anne Bartlett Copy Share Image
You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, take care of the children, clean the house and cook a bit and the men need the chairs. The men sit because they are worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world's… — Frank McCourt Copy Share
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc,… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working. — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
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 into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars,… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share
“I'm a good knitter, and I'm proud of it. I see no point in being modest about things you know you do well. It… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
