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Quotes About Needles

And many a day's hours were like that. As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere in order to torment it slowly with needles. I felt each sharp prick of his playing, and it was: as if a rain fell on me in which all things change.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A shudder of joy runs upThe trunk: the needles tingle;One bird uncontrollably cries.The wind changes round, and I stirWithin another's life. Whose life?
~ James Dickey
there was a universal gasp as the audience saw that the man's penis was tattooed from top to bottom as well. No one in the crowd was unaware that this was by far the most sensitive spot on the male body, and most of them had heard stories of how such tattoos were done. While the tattoo master plied his bundles of sharp-tipped needles as gently as possible, an assistant would stretch the skin taut, and four strong men would immobilize the arms and legs of the shrieking, writhing subject.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.
~ Jasmine Guinness
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
~ Lawrence Durrell
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
~ Thomas Pynchon
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
There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.
~ Bob Goddard
Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
~ Steven Wright
Heroin is such a big scary word but it feels like Oxy at a fraction of the price. You just have to get past any squeamishness regarding needles. Fortunately, there were plenty of YouTube videos to help me along—tutorials (ostensibly for diabetics) showing how to find a vein and how to gently draw back the plunger at just the right moment, to make sure you've made contact with the bloodstream
~ Jason Rekulak
Quite soon my office was a jumble of broken bits of rocks, and needles, and old monographs, all coated in fine, limy dust. I still work in an identical office today. Tidy people's eyes go all peculiar when they come into it. I have a special small padded seat for them to collapse into.
~ Richard Fortey
Her voice is furry and sharp, like a blanket made of needles.
~ Kelly Link
Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles.
~ L. Frank Baum
Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?" asked the Tin Woodman. "That is proof that he is sharp," remarked the Lion.
~ L. Frank Baum
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders, flying... nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I've had four knee operations, and I've got tattoos, so I've seen a few needles in my time.
~ Lucy Bronze
You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn't mind it. But they can't help minding it. And I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, 'Excuse me, you mustn't mind it . . . it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you?
~ L.M. Montgomery
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
~ Lawrence Durrell
They darted like needles through the morning - they wove the bright May morning into a fabric strong enough to support a party.
~ Jessamyn West
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
I knew there was a way to blend records together, but I didn't know how to. This was haunting me when I was in my teens. In my frustration, I decided to start experimenting with electronics. I tested the torque factor on different turntables. I had to figure needles out. See, there are two kinds, elliptical and conical.
~ Grandmaster Flash
When it came to love, you must always be careful. If you dropped something belonging to the man you loved into a candle flame, then added pine needles and marigold flowers, he would arrive on your doorstep by morning, so you would do well to be certain you wanted him there.
~ Alice Hoffman
beyond the confluence lies the wilderness of the Needles country, known to only a few cowboys and uranium prospectors; on the west side of the junction is another labyrinth of canyons, pinnacles and fins of naked stone, known to even fewer, closer than anything else in the forty-eight United States to being genuine terra incognita—The Maze.
~ Edward Abbey
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
On this stretch of highway he was afflicted. It felt as if his heart was being pierced by long sharp needles. He flashed on his father, the two of them sitting in late sunshine, gathering its fugitive warmth.
~ Louise Erdrich