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Quotes About Needle

Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now
~ Leonard Cohen
There was no remedy for the needle in my heart with its long thread of old blood.
~ Leonora Carrington
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
~ Philip Treacy
If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
~ Francis Collins
She smiled over a heap of flowered summery lawn she had in her lap and threaded her needle again with pink silk.
~ Pearl S. Buck
25 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.
~ William Smith
Because he had enjoyed every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rash was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of resilience and preseverance of the tale of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross. In and out of sleep. Like a needle coming out from under a black cloth and then vanishing again. Unthreaded.
~ Unknown
The pain from his arthritis was sewn through the fabric of his day, like a bright needle threaded with dull wire.
~ Peter Carey
Because Lyra now realized, if she hadn't done so before, that all the fear in her nature was drawn to Mrs. Coulter as a compass needle drawn to the Pole.
~ Philip Pullman
In fact, it's got more punctures than a blind dressmaker's thumb.
~ Ian Rankin
Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.
~ W.B. Yeats
Seperation Your absence has gone trough me like thread trough a needle. Everything I do is stiched with it's color.
~ W.S. Merwin
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
~ Eddie Izzard
Few incidents in history excel in pathos the scene of the first mother plying with heaving breast and tremulous fingers, her crude needle on the few fig leaves which her dejected husband plucked for her.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.
~ Louis Aragon
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
~ James Hastings
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 Peterson Haddix
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
~ Unknown
Buddhist texts say that in the cycle of death and rebirth, no place, not even one the size of a needle's point, is exempt from suffering.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Afterwards he congratulated me on a new university record for the most organs hit with one needle in a single procedure.
~ Michael Robotham
A lot of pilgrims run a needle with thread through their blisters. They pull the thread through until it hangs out both entry points and then cut it, leaving two to three inches of thread hanging out, which supposedly allows the blister to drain.
~ Unknown
Finding an Irish-American in the law enforcement profession is like finding hay in a haystack...
~ Unknown
Yeah, it was my mom who showed me how to select the needle from her tomato, snip the bit of string, and find the eye.
~ Unknown