Needles Quotes - Page 9

• As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Cheer, Humility

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.194, Graphic Arts Books

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• Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

  Chuck Yeager

  Baby, Grandma, Feet

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

  Zadie Smith

  Sweet, Grandmother, People

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.161, Vintage

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• I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

  Carrie Fisher

  Dark, Twenties, Destination

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

  Steve Jobs

  Interviews, Hours, Enough

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• Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Camels, Ems

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.256

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• Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

  Tite Kubo

  Light, Water, Shadow

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• Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, Average, Hands

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• The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Eye, Yarn, Starting Over

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rain, Sweaters, Grace

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• I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

  Al Pacino

  People, Drug, Saws

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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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, Knitting

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• Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.

  Paul Samuelson

  Tiny, Twenties, Investing

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• You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.

  Josh Lanyon

  Fear, Puddles, Proud

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• He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters could become worse," he muttered. "I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady." Her head jerked up. "Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.

  Loretta Chase

  Conceited, Hands, White

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

  Ed Westwick

  Indie Rock, Rocks, Arms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

  Buwei Yang Chao

  Surprise, Affair, Holes

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• the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

  Grace S. Richmond

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Taken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

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• I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

  Peter Jackson

  Cds, People, Sound

  "Peter Jackson Talks THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Coming on When Guillermo del Toro Left, and Post-Converting LORD OF THE RINGS to 3D". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Thinking, Should Have, Conquer The World

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• I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

  Judith Leiber

  Age, Dexterity, Stories

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• Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Forsake

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• If I can wheedle
  A knife or a needle,
  Why not a Silver Churn?

  W. S. Gilbert

  Knives, Imagination, Why Not

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.395, Oxford University Press

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