Needles Quotes - Page 11

• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Knitting, Cooking

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• Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Insanity, Creation

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• When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.

  Eliza Leslie

  Blue, Should Have, Class

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.259

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• [On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

  Janet Maslin

  Hot, Plot, Thread

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

  Charlie Parker

  Liars, Years, Play

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It". Book edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379, 1955.

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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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• 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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• I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

  Edith M. Thomas

  Law, Doubt, Looks

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• If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Differences, Tree, Done

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• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

  Tom Shadyac

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

  Peter Jackson

  Attitude, Ends

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, Dumb, Faces

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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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