Knitting Needles Quotes

• Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Hurt, Knitting, Spirit

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• 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

  Nice, Writing, Knitting

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Thinking, Numbers

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Women, Knitting, Trouble

  1932 The Sheltered Life, pt.3, section 3.

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• 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

  Knitting, Sheep, Land

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Christian, Women, Knitting

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

  Daniel Mainwaring

  Women, Knitting, Guy

  "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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

  Henry Beard

  Food, Knitting, Cooking

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• Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

  Lauren Willig

  Knitting, Manners, Needles

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Interesting, Arms

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• 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

  Christian, Knitting, Mouths

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of Glass”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

  David Eddings

  Knitting, Want, Needles

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• . . . 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

  Army, Animal, Knitting

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• 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

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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