Knitting Needles Quotes

#1. Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little
but not on land
and not with needles
" Alice was beginning to say.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles.

L. Frank Baum

#3. Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.

Jessica Day George

#4. After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.

Ann Hood

#5. Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Vita Sackville-West

#6. How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements ... How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles.

Tom Wolfe

#7. You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

Henry Beard

#8. There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention

Margaret Atwood

#9. That's me," Tack answered. "Full of surprises. Now, you gonna give Lawson his assurances and make your call or are we gonna get out our knitting needles and chat while we make scarves.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Nila? Did he dare trust the security system? **** Nila hurried into the living room, "Lydia, where could I find the church newsletter from last month? Did you keep it?" Lydia lowered her knitting needles. "I think so.

Kathleen E. Friesen

#11. And so Charlie Asher ... led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.

Christopher Moore

#12. By 7:28, all the guests had arrived, and there were three empty seats: one for Eve, who had yet to show up, another for John, who would have a seat after he gave his daughter away, and a third that would remain empty, save for the ball of soft white yarn with two silver knitting needles in it.

Debra Anastasia

#13. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#14. The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

Paul Samuelson

#15. I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.

Landon Donovan

#16. Privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Bell Hooks

#17. Beautiful and wealthy as she was, I felt sorry for her. I thought she probably wouldn't realize what she had lost until it was much too late.

Jojo Moyes

#18. Managers may think they control the flow of resources in their firms, in the end it is really customers and investors who dictate how money will be spent because companies with investment patterns that don't satisfy their customers and investors don't survive.

Clayton M Christensen

#19. Moore's law is really about economics.

Gordon Moore

#20. I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

John Green

#21. You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

Daniel Mainwaring

#22. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

Steven Pressfield

#23. I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.

Lynn Austin

#24. I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

David Nicholls

#25. Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

Dorothy Day

#26. Grand Duchess Marie pronounced knitting a wonderful escape from life's problems: 'When the needles slip through the fingers, your imagination takes flight.' - new york times, may 12, 1936

Barbara Levine

#27. I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Robert Charles Wilson

#28. But still, my heart beats. It dreams. It wonders. And most dangerous of all, it hopes, because despite its smallness, this hope is still a great something

Emalynne Wilder

#29. Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

J.C. Ryle

#30. The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Patrick Dixon

#31. I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses.

Mark Batterson

#32. Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

Mike Colter

#33. And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

Osho