Needles Quotes - Page 12

• My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

  Eddie Izzard

  Brain, Helping, Said

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

  Barry Goldwater

  Long, Foxes, Great Success

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• Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, One Direction

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• Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

  Walter Alston

  Worry, Guy, Pet

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• I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now - It's like a bunch of theologians arguing over how many angels you can stick on the head of a needle. When you've got a side that changes from global warming, global warming, global warming to climate change, which is intuitive - the climate has always been changing since the beginning of time - and then just begins to claim every answer is the correct answer, you often stand back, and I don't care who you are, you have to question as to what the real motive is in this.

  Joe Bastardi

  Real, Silly, Angel

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• When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.

  Mark Mobius

  Opportunity, Interesting, Digging

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• There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

  Moby

  Musician, Actors, Saving

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

  John Vanderslice

  Block, Thinking, Catching On

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

  Matthew Specktor

  Running, Records, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Eight, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sailor, Knows

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

  Bob Dylan

  Turntables, Knows, Stunned

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, Dumb, Faces

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• Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Real, Eye

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• It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

  Vera Nazarian

  Giving Up, Eye, Men

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• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Reading, Cake, Soul

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1854). “Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix”, p.7

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• Even though fructose has no immediate effect on blood sugar and insulin, over time -maybe a few years-it is a likely cause of insulin resistance and thus the increased storage of calories as fat. The needle on our fuel-partitioning gauge will point toward fat storage, even if it didn't start out that way.

  Gary Taubes

  Blood, Years, Gauges

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.

  Johannes Kepler

  Two, Space, Together

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

  Maurice Sendak

  Heart, Childhood, Stuck

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• If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Sticks, Booty

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• I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

  Neal Stephenson

  Machines, Littles, Thread

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

  Seal

  People, Broken, Fearless

  Song: Prayer for the Dying, Album: Seal (1994), 1994

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• The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Eye, Embroidery

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Men, Thinking, Yang

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