A Stitch In Time Quotes

#1. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#2. History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make

Carol Bellamy

#4. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.

Lindsay Anderson

#5. I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

Cyndi Lauper

#6. A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Simon Haynes

#7. I really don't want to win. I just want to improve and be better than I was.

Debasish Mridha

#8. It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Barbara Bush

#9. Okay, this is going to be confusing, kid.-Amelia Pond to her younger self in the pandora box

Stephen Moffat

#10. We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.

Lawrence Block

#11. If time were a bolt of cloth," said Om, "I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

Rohinton Mistry

#12. All people are a single nation.

Aly Khan

#13. The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.

Michael Loceff

#14. Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve. - A stitch in time saves nine.

Donella H. Meadows

#15. intrepid adventurer would have been seen in those sparsely populated

Bob Biderman

#16. There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

Margaret Case Harriman

#17. Before he came to Alaka, he dared to hope that he was meant for something more. Now he dared to hope that he could shape that meaning for himself. All this time, he had expected that magic would stitch his future together. But all magic had done was show him how to stitch it together for himself.

Roshani Chokshi

#18. Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

Tia Carrere

#19. Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

Dejan Stojanovic

#20. I look to the heavens for an answer, and do you know what I get?A raindrop in the eye.But the real treat is waiting for me in the ballroom, where Great Grandma is in the process of removing every last stitch of her clothing. It's time for her bath, she says.Wow. Naked old woman flesh kills .

Nicole Christie

#21. Once upon a time ...
A journey began,
that would stitch all the worlds together with light.

Laini Taylor

#22. The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Michel Templet

#23. Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

John Updike

#24. The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#25. Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a
rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#26. I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

Ross Kemp