Needle Quotes - page 3

Some good must come by clinging to the right. Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction. (Vincent van Gogh)
Thus use your frog...Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;...and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him. View quote
Izaak Walton
As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
..before being hypnotized, she could not distinguish the capitals in the advertising columns of a newspaper. After being hypnotized, however, she could, in a few minutes, see to read the large and second heading of the newspaper, and next day, to make herself a blond cap, threading her needle WITHOUT the aid of glasses. View quote
James Braid
As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity. View quote
Richard Baxter
Her brother's smart, he's got more sense than many, His patience long, but soon he won't have any, To find a job is like a haystack needle, 'Cause where he lives, they don't use coloured people, Living just enough, just enough for the city. View quote
Stevie Wonder
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread- Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt.”. View quote
Thomas Hood
There was a larger pattern we worked at: they on a big loom, I with a small needle. View quote
R. S. Thomas
You couldn't make this any smaller without needing a sewing needle and magnifying glass to work it. I'm tempted to see if I can swallow it, and belch the White Album all the way home. View quote
Ben Croshaw
Each green leaf or each needle is in effect a remarkably well-regulated metal factory. Its operation can be demonstrated experimentally. With the falling of the leaves or needles this supply of metals is scattered by the wind, and the more undergrowth there is, the greater is the dispersion of organic metal salts, which during the winter are pressed down hard by the snow. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland. (Norman Davies)
Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck. View quote
Annie Proulx
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. View quote
Lauren Willig
"When the blessed canopy had been fixed about a mile from the gate of Arangal, the tents around the fort were pitched together so closely that the head of a needle could not go between them... Orders were issued that every man should erect behind his own tent a kathgar, that is wooden defence. The trees were cut with axes and felled, notwithstanding their groans; and the Hindus, who worship trees, could not at that time come to the rescue of their idols, so that every cursed tree which was in that capital of idolatry was cut down to the roots... View quote
Amir Khusrow
The curriculum of the girl's school should be vernacular, needle work and sanitation...teaching women amounted to loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanising impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt the sentiments of the Hindus...teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate. View quote
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Diseases, a paralysis of the left side, a monstrous right hand tremor strengthened by the efforts by the needle [for engraving] and caused by previous excesses with alcohol, prevent me from doing any calligraphic craftsmanship. A constant effort to achieve my goal - I've never reached the degree hoped - has exacerbated my life, and every job has ended with the depression of having to go on with this life. View quote
Lovis Corinth
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. View quote
Jay Cutler
When the blessed canopy had been fixed about a mile from the gate of Arangal, the tents around the fort were pitched together so closely that the head of a needle could not go between them' Orders were issued that every man should erect behind his own tent a kathgar, that is wooden defence. The trees were cut with axes and felled, notwithstanding their groans; and the Hindus, who worship trees, could not at that time come to the rescue of their idols, so that every cursed tree which was in that capital of idolatry was cut down to the roots'.... 'During the attack, the catapults were busily plied on both sides' 'Praise be to God for his exaltation of the religion of Muhammad. It is not to be doubted that stones are worshipped by Gabrs,74 but as the stones did no service to them, they only bore to heaven the futility of that worship, and at the same time prostrated their devotees upon earth. View quote
Alauddin Khalji
5225. To seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. View quote
Beryl Markham
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts. (Deborah Norville)
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. View quote
Don Hewitt
When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all. View quote
Jenson Button
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. View quote
Jewel
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. View quote
Harry Crosby