Quotes About Wool

Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again--not half, by a long way.

Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant.

I puffed at the cigarette. It was one of those things with filters in them. It tasted like a high fog strained through cotton wool.

La raison rétrécit la vie, comme l'eau rétrécit les tricots de laine, si bien qu'on s'y sent coincé et on ne peut plus lever les bras.

Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the very sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of the sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a coffee cup. (from On Paradise, page 50)

Ira felt as if he'd contracted an all-over emotional itch, as if he'd put on a sweater made of spiritually abrasive wool- but to take it off would leave him dreadfully cold.

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

I put on my bathing suit—a hopelessly girlish and unflattering garment of sagging black wool

During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.

In the lobby, an old woman with legs wrapped in elastic bandages mopped the floor with filthy water. She kept missing the same spot, over and over. There was the overpowering smell of disinfectant, bad tobacco, and wet wool. This was the smell of Russia indoors, the smell of the woman in front of you on line, the smell of every elevator. Near an abandoned newsstand, dozens of overcoats hung on long rows of pegs, somber and dark, lightly steaming, like nags in a stable.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?" "Sleep with it," he suggested. "Think of me.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

On bottom... Fellows studied the blue and green Mackenzie plaid kilt laid out across his bed. He'd worn it before, at Christmas at Kilmorgan, feeling strange with wool wrapping his hips, air circulating his thighs. Scotsmen had to be mad.

So Craw had his fleece, his original fiber materials—him and Ben. They would be the alpaca and the merino wool, spun together

Wool actually keeps heat in even when it's wet—believe it or not, your hands will get colder unless we have a heat source. Change your socks. Get Damie squared away. Fire's next, okay?

A spray of burning tobacco flew into the air, followed by furious slaps and the stench of scorched wool. Once Holmes was sure he was not about to go up in flames, he turned to the driver in a fury.

Olann an cat cluin bainne leis.

When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, O you most ungrateful creatures! You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you.

She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

He'd been cossetted and wrapped up in cotton wool all his life by his mother, who was a horror .