Needles Quotes - Page 14

• Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

  Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

  Inspirational, Daughter, Serendipity

  "What Does That Mean? : Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries". Book by Eldon Taylor (p. 9), 2010.

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• Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles.

  Jon Rappoport

  Dirty, Needs, Use

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• It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

  Jerry Stahl

  Alcohol, Cleaning

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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, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

  John C. Bogle

  Looks, Investment, Financial Success

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Growing Up, House, Magic

  Josef Helfenstein, Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober (1991). “Parkett”

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• Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Oil, Soul, Important

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.14, Black Irish Books

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• Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

  Groucho Marx

  Talking, Office, Tears

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Military, War, Latin

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

  Tom Robbins

  Track, Lust, World

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Tongue, Fit

  "The Prologue" l. 25 (1650)

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• The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.

  James Lane Allen

  Country, Running, Animal

  James Lane Allen, William K. Bottorff (1967). “A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

  Yoko Ono

  Drug, Connections, Scared

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• Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Summer, Air, Cotton

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

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• Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

  Gary Kleck

  Gun, Criminals, Population

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• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  A. A. Gill

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Memories

  "Flow: For Love of Water". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Easy, Break

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.210

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• If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Science, Ust, Littles

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• Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.

  Irene Cara

  Careers, Enemy, Arms

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• If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably.

  Rob Ford

  Gay, Aids, Ifs

  "Rob Ford: 42 remarkable moments from Toronto mayor’s career" by Daniel Dale, www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

  Jack Dempsey

  Wind, Boxing, Trying

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• The Father and His angelic hierarchy
  That made the magnitude and glory there
  Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Father, Eye, Angel

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Airports, Light

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• It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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