Needle And Thread Quotes:

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Inspirational, Red, Rags, Eyelids, Needle And Thread

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

- Ernst Gombrich

source: Ernst Hans Gombrich (1977). “Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation”

topic: Thread, Needles, Handle, Needle And Thread

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Tears, Thread, Hinder, Needle And Thread

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Stitches, Thread, Needlework, Needle And Thread

To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything. Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it. Thank you, and keep going.

- Shauna Niequist

topic: Beautiful, Kids, Artist, Pottery, Late Night

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

- Julia Alvarez

source: Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf

topic: Writing, Together, World, Back Together, Needle And Thread

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.19, Penguin

topic: Stars, Home, Light, Where She Went, Bright Star

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.166, Stanford University Press

topic: World, Incredibles, Aids, Defective, Needle And Thread

To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?

- Laura E. Richards

topic: Country, Children, War, Needle And Thread

I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

- Jill Soloway

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Tattoo, Eight, Hands, Abu Ghraib, Needle And Thread