Needles Quotes

• If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Doing You, Groove

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• Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

  Jewel

  Hypocrisy, Know How, Knows

  Song: Under The Water, 2009

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• I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
  And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

  Etheridge Knight

  Angel, Tears, Spoons

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

  Dov Davidoff

  Society, Together, Woven

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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• History is a needle
  for putting men asleep
  anointed with the poison
  Of all they want to keep.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, History, Poison

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.65, Random House

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• Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Discovery

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

  Daniel Boone

  Night, Goal, Storm

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• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Funny, Dope, Political

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

  Charles Simic

  Firefighter, Poetry, Enough

  Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller

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• I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

  Sheena Easton

  Eye, Trying, Sticks

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• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Taken, Years, Clothes

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Garden, Luxury

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• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Trying, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Camels, Reason Why

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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  Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  Pam Brown

  Sweet, Feet, Pet

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• We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

  Charles Clarke

  Small Numbers, Cities, Evil

  "MI5 Faces Tough Questions on Decision to Relax Security". www.independent.co.uk. July 08, 2005.

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• Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Acupuncture

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• One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

  Jared Sandberg

  Data, Digital, Helping

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• People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  America, People, Political

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook G", G 2), (1779-1783).

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• The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Heart, Grandchildren

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• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  Orson Welles

  Christmas, Fall, Roots

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• I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Class, Doors

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

  Goldie Hawn

  Crazy, Men, Lovely

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• Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

  Dorothy Day

  Nice, Writing, Knitting

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