Needles Quotes - Page 6

• We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

  D. J. MacHale

  Hay, May, Has Beens

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

  Ali Partovi

  Artist, Roles, Tools

  "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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• Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Light, Waiting, Black

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• This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

  Gareth Roberts

  Book, Doctors, Trying

  Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts (2012). “Doctor Who: Shada”, p.51, Random House

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• Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.

  Jessica Day George

  Christian, Knitting, Mouths

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of Glass”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, New Life, Desert

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Doors, Sick, Brave

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• If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Teacher, War, Book

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Stars, Prayer

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• I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Heart, Three, Pins

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Piano, Nurse

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• The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

  Ramakrishna

  Ocean, Heart, Men

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Liars, Years, Scare

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• The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

  Nick Cave

  Reality, Stuck

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Advice, Common, Tattooed

  "Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers" by William F. Buckley, Jr., archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 1986.

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• Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

  Alice Cooper

  Dust, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Hey Stoopid, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
  The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
  The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
  A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
  Autumn leaves and rain,
  The passion of the gale.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Passion, Autumn

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3781, Delphi Classics

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• Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

  Joni Mitchell

  Gun, Laughing, Alcohol

  Song: Blue on Blue

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• I've seen the needle and the damage done.

  Neil Young

  Alcohol, Drug, Damage

  Song: The Needle and the Damage Done, Album: Harvest

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• ...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Light, Giving

  Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.363

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• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  Stevie Wonder

  Veins, Unanswered Questions, Sticks

  Song: Jesus Children Of America, Album: Innervisions, 1973

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• I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go through to find a good photo is like a needle in the haystack sometimes. You'll drive from one gallery to the next gallery to the next gallery. It's not an easy process. It's a very ancient model that just hasn't caught up with the times.

  Guy Oseary

  Mean, Long, Next

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• Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

  Bodo Balsys

  Buddhist, Suffering, Apathy

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• My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

  Simon Le Bon

  Kids, Records, Incredibles

  Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 23, 2010.

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