Quotes About Sewing Machines

#1. One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Marcel Pagnol

#2. There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.

Elizabeth Arden

#3. My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.

Cate Blanchett

#4. When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

Mason Cooley

#5. I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Neal Stephenson

#6. Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Jack Horner

#7. The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#8. I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Frank Carson

#9. I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

Emo Philips

#10. The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Mason Cooley

#11. When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?

Wanda Sykes

#12. If people can fly, that will be good; they will hang around in the sky and the ground will be quieter!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

Jack Kornfield

#14. There are some old machines like antique sewing machine or pasta machine; seeing them is seeing our great grandmothers, touching them is touching our grandmothers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

Daniel Levitin

#17. Darkness had spread over my skin like ink.

Haruki Murakami

#18. In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

Nhat Hanh