Yarn Quotes

• When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

  Julia Glass

  Life, Destiny, Spinning

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Together, Good And Evil

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Bird, Littles

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.19, Storey Publishing

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• I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Broken, Mending

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.

  Debbie Macomber

  Mean, Three, Use

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• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  Karen Allen

  Jobs, Tangled, Life Is Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.

  Cicely Tyson

  Quilts, Color, Pieces

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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

  Meg Tilly

  Friends, Character, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

  David Brin

  Character, Writing, Ideas

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• The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Running, Knitting, Chance

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.12, Storey Publishing

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• Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House

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• And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

  Edith Pattou

  Track, Stories, Sometimes

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.10, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Humility, Brain, Accuracy

  Daniel C. Dennett (2013). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.339, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Fate, Trying, Extras

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.12, Storey Publishing

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• God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Despair, Together

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Humble, Knitting, Order

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Stories, Benches

  "Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry".

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• The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

  Ben Hecht

  Girl, Children, Eye

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Clothes, Pjs, Shoes

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• ... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

  Kate Jacobs

  Use, Persons

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.172, Penguin

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• Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

  Graham Moore

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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