Knitting Needles Quotes:

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

- Brian May

topic: Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting, Knobs, Motorbike

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

topic: Hurt, Knitting, Spirit, Knitters, Knitting Needles

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.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Nice, Writing, Knitting, Knitting Needles, Nice Day

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

topic: Food, Thinking, Numbers, Knitting Needles, Distressing

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Women, Knitting, Trouble, Knitting Needles

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

topic: Knitting, Sheep, Land, Knitting Needles

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

- Vita Sackville-West

topic: Christian, Women, Names, Knitting Needles, Allusion

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

- Daniel Mainwaring

source: "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.

topic: Women, Knitting, Guy, Knitting Needles

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

- Henry Beard

topic: Knitting, Reason, Culinary, Knitting Needles

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

- Lauren Willig

source: Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin

topic: Knitting, Manners, Needles, Knitting Needles

Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Christian, Knitting, Poppies, Knitting Needles

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

- David Eddings

topic: Knitting, Want, Needles, Knitting Needles

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

- Amy Tan

topic: Children, Fighting, Saws, Joy Luck Club, Knitting Needles

Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Knitting, Hands, Two, Knitting Needles, Metallic

. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Army, Animal, Knitting, Knitting Needles, Sporks

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

source: Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

topic: Winter, Knitting, Wish, Knitting Needles, Winter Cold