Top 26 Elizabeth Zimmermann Quotes
#1. I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#3. I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.
Alex Winston
#4. Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Emil Cioran
#5. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
Amy Tan
#6. One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#7. One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#8. Better than being a dog leashed by a psychotic monster.
Sarah J. Maas
#9. Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#10. Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.
Holly Black
#11. Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
Rohinton Mistry
#13. Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#14. If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.
Joss Whedon
#16. I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#17. Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#18. The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#20. Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?
Ryan Boudinot
#22. Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Abigail Adams
#23. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#24. Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. "Ye poor miserable critter!" he said, "there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!" and he fainted entirely away.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#25. Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#26. Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
Elizabeth Zimmermann