Knitting Quotes

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. (Edvard Munch)
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. View quote
Tony Curtis
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents-conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting. View quote
Gerald Durrell
Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. View quote
Meg Cabot
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead. View quote
David Eddings
I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen. View quote
David Eddings
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. View quote
Magdalena Neuner
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. (Ellen Glasgow)
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer. View quote
Arto Lindsay
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there. View quote
Chellie Pingree
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day. View quote
Chris Messina
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.' View quote
Ron Conway
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about. View quote
Sam Brownback
The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting. View quote
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world. View quote
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it. View quote
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. View quote
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. (Sutton Foster)
Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. View quote
Dorothy Day
The operations of commerce are not confined to the material ends; that there is no more powerful agent in consolidating and in knitting together the amity of nations; and that the great moral purpose of the repression of human passions, and those lusts and appetites which are the great cause of war, is in direct relation with the understanding and application of the science which you desire to propagate. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone