Needles Quotes - Page 6

• The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

  Amanda Palmer

  Color, Bed, Dozen

  Song: The Point Of It All, Album: Who Killed Amanda Palmer, 2008

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• The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

  John Green

  Light, Shadow, Lace

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• Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Mother, Missing Someone

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• Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

  Gayle Forman

  Stars, Home, Light

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.19, Penguin

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• When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Stupid

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

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• On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Lying, Clouds, Worry

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “The Solitary Summer”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Men, Hair

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rain, Scent, Faces

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

  Che Guevara

  Heart, Looks, Matter

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• Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

  Michael Ondaatje

  Eye, Love Is, Tears

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.288, Vintage

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• ...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick

  Margaret Haddix

  Fire, Games, Play

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Among the Brave”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Clouds, Flames

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Mother, Laughter

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2982, Bantam

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• Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Inspire, Glue

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• I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles." "Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?

  Cassandra Clare

  Cutting, Hands, Towers

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

  Tamora Pierce

  Mother, Men, Thinking

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Coward, Would Be, Poison

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• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

  Cassandra Clare

  Towers, Asking, Benefits

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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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 flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman

  Ilona Andrews

  Views, Use, Rooms

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.57, Penguin

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