Needle Quotes - page 2

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene. (Amanda Plummer)
My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible! View quote
Simon Le Bon
You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. View quote
Groucho Marx
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. View quote
Carrie Fisher
There was a physical quality in us resembling the power of electricity or of the magnet, by which when a pair approached within a striking distance they flew together like the needle to the pole or like two objects in electric experiments. View quote
John Adams
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. View quote
Yukio Mishima
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Well, ah tied on, percht on mah bed ah was, Sticken' a needle in mah arm, Ah tied off, Fucken wings burst out mah back! View quote
Nick Cave
Alf Todd,' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat's ear with a red-hot needle. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
And make up your mind about what bloody race you belong to. One minute it's all about being a farmer's boy in Northamptonshire and the next you're on about the old days in Calcutta and what the British have done to Mother India and the snake-charmers and the bloody temple-bells. Ah, wake up, for God's sake. You're English right enough but you're forgetting how to speak the bloody language, what with traipsing about with Punjabis and Sikhs and God knows what. You talk Hindustani in your sleep, man. Sort it out, for God's sake. If you want to put a loincloth on, get cracking, but don't expect the privileges --' (the word came out in a wet blurr; the needle stuck for a couple of grooves) ‘the privileges, the privileges... View quote
Anthony Burgess
It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles. (Cassandra Clare)
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. View quote
Maria Mitchell
The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle. View quote
Samuel Richardson
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee. View quote
Thomas Moore
I was walking in the city the other day. I saw a syringe lying on the sidewalk. I stuck the needle in my forearm. That was a classy neighborhood, so the use of the syringe seemed justified. View quote
Xavier Leroy
It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other. They'd been excellent friends. They'd make excellent enemies as well. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know if I was stoned or straight... All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted. View quote
Bob Dylan
No! No, she's fif-teen. Fif-teen.' Right then my pervometer needle hit the red. I had to have her, even if she was homely. View quote
Mark Ames
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. View quote
Barton Booth
He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on. (Grandmaster Flash)
Herc really slipped up. With the monostrous power he had he couldn't mix too well. He was playing little breaks but it would sound so sloppy. I noticed that the mixer he was using was a GLI 3800. It was a very popular mixer at that time. It's a scarcity today but it's still one of the best mixers GLI ever made. At the time he wasn't using no cueing. In other words, the hole was there for a headphone to go in but I remember he never had headphones over his ears. All of a sudden, Herc had headphones but I guess he was so used to dropping the needle down by eyesight and trying to mix it that from the audio part of it he couldn't get into it too well. View quote
Grandmaster Flash
It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove. View quote
Andy Partridge
I think my parents had visions of me being found in the Thames with six illicit foetuses in my womb and needle marks up my arm. View quote
Fenella Fielding
Petals are a plant's eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph. View quote
Malcolm de Chazal