Knitting Quotes - Page 3

• Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

  Simon Campbell

  Design, Suffering, Fool

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• I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Too Much, Internet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• [If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

  J. R. Ackerley

  Criticism, Pieces, Enough

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• 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, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

  Arto Lindsay

  Summer, Europe, Groups

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• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  Sam Brownback

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Judiciary Panelists Debate Miers". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2005.

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Taken, Bored, Arson

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Doctors, Office, Waiting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Thinking, Knitting Needles

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.26, Storey Publishing

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• Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Tea, Spinning

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• I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

  Marita Golden

  Mother, Reading, Writing

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• If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mother, Stupid, School

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• Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

  Edith Sitwell

  Believe, Writing, Virginia

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• Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Grateful, Opposites, Anomalies

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• Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Christian, Women, Names

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Practice

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one I was looking for. We made it in different colours, and decided to sell them in the store...and in a day, they were sold out! This sweater became later known as the "poor boy sweater" and it ended up making the cover of Elle magazine, and in a day, I became the "Queen of knit", without knowing anything about knitting!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Queens, Husband, Boys

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Giving, Credit, Littles

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• I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

  Clare Balding

  Passion, Car, People

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• What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

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• 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 that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

  David Eddings

  Believe, Soul, Trying

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