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Quotes About Needle

Back in the 1800s, girls learned to sew as early as age four. Many of the girls at Kings Landing had never really used a needle and thread before. Being older didn't make their lesson any easier. "I'm always pricking myself," said Krista. "Look on the bright side," said Sarah, "burning yourself on the stove is worse.
~ Susan E. Goodman
The needle of his moral compass had swung madly without direction. Fueled by the terror of being prey, how quickly he himself had become a predator, with no reservations about smashing Bobbin to death. He'd
~ Suzanne Collins
Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still,
~ Suzanne Collins
only a few people suffice to disproportionately move the needle.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.
~ Carol Birch
You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.
~ George R. R. Martin
You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers." Arya didn't think it was funny. "I hate needlework!" she said with passion. "It's not fair!
~ George R.R. Martin
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
~ Matthew
Problem is, it'll be like looking for the crazy needle in a stack of needles. And nobody say 'haystack,'" she warned. "Because that's just stupid.
~ J.D. Robb
I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.
~ Scott Coker
Even armed with my new information, this strip of city was still one large haystack. And Molly was still one small needle.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
~ Leonard Cohen
There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.
~ Sandra Oh
Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don't mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.
~ Phil Taylor
I can't look when my blood is drawn and I hyperventilate when I see a needle. I hate it.
~ Kenya Moore
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
~ Virginia Woolf
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after.
~ Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
~ Charles Dickens
Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? See the stitches curve and crawl Round the cunning seams— Patterns thin and sweet and small As a lady's dreams.
~ Dorothy Parker
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
~ Jeff Bezos
WANTED: A needle swift enough To sew this poem into a blanket.
~ Charles Simic, 1969
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.
~ Guevara Ernesto Che
Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.
~ Jay Cutler
Two of his favorite, easy-to-find teas are both from Red Blossom Tea Company: Tung Ting dark roast oolong, and, for something milder, Silver Needle white tea.
~ Timothy Ferriss