Top 35 Quotes About Needlework
#1. I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
R.L. LaFevers
#2. ..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#3. What do you like to do?"
She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework."
"Very restful, isn't it?"
"Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it.
George R R Martin
#4. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#5. But dear, you hate to sew.
I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.
Patricia A. McKillip
#6. I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia
Tom Holt
#7. The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes.
- Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#9. Setting aside her needlework, Miss Peregrine rose and hobbled to the window. Her gait was rigid and awkward, as if one of her legs were shorter than the other.
Ransom Riggs
#10. I suggest you stick to your needlework." "Only if I can stitch your lips shut.
Suzanne Barclay
#11. Colonel Andrews popped his head through the doorway. "Did I hear a sigh?"
Miss Charming screamed and dropped her needlework, and Charlotte jumped in her chair, knocking her knee against a marble coffee table.
Shannon Hale
#12. My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
Betsy Byars
#13. Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom?
Mary Balogh
#14. By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. As I sat here, absorbed in my needlework, the urge to consult the orb overpowered me. I arose, I settled myself before it, and I gazed into its crystalline depths . . . and what do you think I saw gazing back at me?" "An ugly old bat in outsize specs?" Ron muttered under his breath.
J.K. Rowling
#16. Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport.
Jostein Gaarder
#17. From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Honore De Balzac
#18. I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#19. Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#20. I know I'm supposed to be a good girl. I know I'm supposed to be happy doing needlework samplers and baking potatoes in coal and whatnot.
But Lord, I love running from the law.
Saundra Mitchell
#21. But you can tell he's a wizard, because he's got a pointy hat with a floppy brim. It's got the word "Wizzard" embroidered on it in big silver letters, by someone whose needlework is even worse than their spelling.
Terry Pratchett
#22. One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [ ... ] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
Anne Fadiman
#23. It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
Jesse Owens
#24. The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
Benjamin Zander
#26. I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.
Chris Squire
#27. Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.
Dianna Agron
#28. I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all the time, and that's really how you grow.
Meaghan Rath
#30. Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#31. She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?
Libbie Hawker
#32. Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children ... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
Keith Ablow
#33. If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...
Rudyard Kipling
#34. To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
