Darning Socks Quotes

#1. When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Vivienne Westwood

#2. You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

#3. the incisive observational powers of a female surgeon cutting out her own heart.

Patti Smith

#4. The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

John Lynch

#5. Dave and Tate were dressed with equal heinousness. More black leather, chains, and whips. Either Don's staff truly had costumes for all possible occasions on hand, or someone at wardrobe had a lot of explaining to do.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

Horace

#7. You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

Charles M. Schwab

#8. Babies used to make me nervous, but these squirmy things are awesome once you've read the manual.

David Z. Hirsch

#9. The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

Jonah Goldberg

#10. I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

Ron Livingston

#11. Thought you could steal the pepper, did you?! Thought you could try darning my socks while I was asleep, did you?! I wanted those holes there, you little bastard! I wanted those holes there!" He throttled the duck and swung it up and down, whumping it on the table.

Clayton Smith

#12. You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

Anne Lamott

#13. God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Thomas Browne

#14. only she could fix her problems with a needle and thread she'd be set. Nellie looked up from the socks she was darning toward the knocking on the front door. Who could

Cynthia Woolf

#15. Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

Richard Russo

#16. There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.

Wylie Dufresne

#17. What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that lump inside?"
"A sock egg."
"A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs."
"Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.

Polly Shulman