Stitch Me Up Quotes

#1. Cut me open and the light streams out.
Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches

Richard Siken

#2. the dolphins stitch sky to sea.

Ellen Bass

#3. I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#4. In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.

George Antheil

#5. I don't know you either for that matter. So maybe I shouldn't trust the words of a man who only recently decided to stitch himself into the picture.

Kimberly Spencer

#6. Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

Nelson Mandela

#7. They calm me, these Stitch and Bitch sessions

T.S. Easton

#8. Make up a story ... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Toni Morrison

#9. If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

Rumer Godden

#10. There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

Rhodri Morgan

#11. The stitch of a book is its words.

Rumer Godden

#12. I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

Pamela Anderson

#13. It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up.

Jodi Picoult

#14. I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

Cyndi Lauper

#15. A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Simon Haynes

#16. How is it that I am completely naked while you haven't shed even one stitch of clothing?"
"Because you were dinner, Rebecca."
A snort escaped, mixing with her laughter. "Remind me to have dinner with you more often. I have been missing out."
"You? What about me?

Krystal Shannan

#17. I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

Adrienne Rich

#18. There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

Margaret Case Harriman

#19. Watch your mouth," Mahlia said, "or I'll stitch your guts shut.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#20. The stitch ripper is your friend. Be one with the stitch ripper...

Jeanette Watts

#21. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

Anthony Liccione

#22. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#23. Stories
individual stories, family stories, national stories
are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Yann Martel

#24. Jeffrey Murdock is a colossal turd."
"Can I stitch that on a sampler and put it on Etsy?"
"Sure.

Cecilia London

#25. Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#26. On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

William Monahan

#27. water needles
stitch up the split
shadow-he fights his way
deeper down, free.

Paul Celan

#28. Because, my weird has been able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-Stitch.

Alexandra Bracken

#29. Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.

Neal Stephenson

#30. I'm going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I'll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember?

Jaden Wilkes

#31. I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.

Gillian Flynn

#32. Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

China Mieville

#33. Swan renders the gathering amusingly, depicting the vile android Brainiac, scourge of the galaxy, sitting on Clark's ottoman and chatting away with Luthor as if he's at some kind of Stitch-n-Bitch-of-Doom.

Glen Weldon

#34. around. You can use the three-hole or five-hole stitch, or make up your own version. Some artists I know have worked with take-out menus, junk mail, fliers left on their car windshield wipers - it is fun to take ephemeral materials

Esther K. Smith

#35. 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

#36. Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form," Chubs said. "Yes, in ye olde medieval Europe you would've been quite the catch -

Alexandra Bracken