Yarn Quotes - Page 2

• No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

  Wallace Stegner

  Fiction, Legends, Facts

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn.

  Luke Bryan

  Grandma

  Song: Country Girl, Album: Tailgates & Tanlines, 2011

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• As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Ideas, Usual, Sock

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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, Starting Over, Stitches

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

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• There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  Diet Eman

  Girl, Mother, Pain

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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, Sweaters, Reuse

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• A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

  Dashiell Hammett

  People, Trying, Telling The Truth

  "The Thin Man". Book by Dashiell Hammett, 1929.

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• Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Writing, Sweaters

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Teenager, Science, Boys

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Sweaters, Scarves

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.139, Penguin

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• Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Baby, Knitting

  Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.

  Jenny Mollen

  Cat, Past, Sight

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.51, St. Martin's Press

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• The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Writing, Scripts, Firsts

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• It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Shopping, Use

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing

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• I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

  Willa Cather

  Women, Writing, Wine

  Willa Cather (1993). “Willa Cather”

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• We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Change, Two, Tangled

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• His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

  Curtis Hanson

  Typewriters, Self, Discipline

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.

  David Limbaugh

  Recovery, College, Convince Us

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• I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Long, Way

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Labyrinth, Mazes, Monsters

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 36, Journal entry (August 1, 1835), 1978.

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• Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

  Ilana Mercer

  Acting, Hollywood, Stories

  "2 Movie Gems Amid A Lot Of Hollywood Hooey". www.wnd.com. July 06, 2007.

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• The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.

  Max Delbruck

  Motivation, People, Progress

  Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 87, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

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• Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Party, Drunk

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• Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Writing, Views

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