Stitches Quotes - Page 3

• Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Prayer, Truth, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark - on both of you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Bleeding, Eclipse, Jacob

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.305, Hachette UK

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• John's relationship with each of the other Beatles was different. He was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who often had him in stitches with his jokes.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Ringo, Relaxed, Jokes

  "John".

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• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

  Tayari Jones

  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

  Pippa Middleton

  Christmas, Running, White

  "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.

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• I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Use, Opening

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• If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Together, Breathe

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.27, Scholastic UK

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• Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Real, Eye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.

  Emo Philips

  Baseball, Kids, Nicknames

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• If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters.

  Ted Cruz

  Iowa, Class, People

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Looks, Veins, Kind

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• All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

  Keira Knightley

  Stories, Able, Firsts

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• One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.

  Studs Terkel

  Gun, Night, Pigs

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

  Masiela Lusha

  Way, Sometimes, Instinct

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Together, Cold, Moments

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Yesterday, My Birthday

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• About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. It started me on this journey of rediscovering sleep and balance and integrating my life. I think everyone should stop and reassess their lives before you hit your head on your desk.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Eye, Journey

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Sweet, Book, Doe

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• 75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  People, Community, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.

  William Friedkin

  Eye, Knitting, Sweaters

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I needed two stitches after Alex kicked the boot at me. 
  (on Ferguson)

  David Beckham

  Two, Alex, Ferguson

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• There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

  Rhodri Morgan

  Next, Pope, Paisley

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• Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

  Joan Rivers

  Girl, Done, Posters

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