Quotes about Needle

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. Votes: 4

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, Votes: 3

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything.""Says the man who'd just punch the haystack. Votes: 3

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack Votes: 3

A big iron needle stitching the country together. Votes: 2

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. Votes: 2

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. Votes: 2

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Votes: 2

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. Votes: 2

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. Votes: 2

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Votes: 2

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. Votes: 2

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Votes: 2

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months. Votes: 2

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. Votes: 2

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on. Votes: 2

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Votes: 2

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. Votes: 2

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens. Votes: 2

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Votes: 2

Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory. Votes: 2

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Votes: 2

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. Votes: 2

At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets? Votes: 2

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. Votes: 2

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can. Votes: 1

It looks like [Donald] Trump's plan has the potential to actually move the needle on economic growth because he wants to lower taxes and lower regulations. That would be very powerful in terms of creating jobs. Votes: 1

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality. Votes: 1

I watched the needle take another man. Votes: 0

Most haystacks do not even have a needle. Votes: 0

I've seen the needle and the damage done. Votes: 0

I am a haystack in a needle of time. Votes: 0

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen Votes: 0

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. Votes: 0

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken. Votes: 0

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. Votes: 0

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein? Votes: 0

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle. Votes: 0

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword. Votes: 0

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts. Votes: 0

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Votes: 0

Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle. Votes: 0

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.... Votes: 0

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! Votes: 0

Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we're making the haystack bigger, Votes: 0

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. Votes: 0

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. Votes: 0

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. Votes: 0

Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell. Votes: 0

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation. Votes: 0

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind. Votes: 0

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial. Votes: 0

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. Votes: 0

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. Votes: 0

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. Votes: 0

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn? Votes: 0

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle Votes: 0

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. Votes: 0

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, Votes: 0

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world. Votes: 0

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. Votes: 0

I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet... Votes: 0

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Votes: 0

You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants. Votes: 0

They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. Votes: 0

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it. Votes: 0

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was? Votes: 0

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. Votes: 0

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. Votes: 0

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep. Votes: 0

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Votes: 0

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election. Votes: 0

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind Votes: 0

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. Votes: 0

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. Votes: 0

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm. Votes: 0

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. Votes: 0

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk. Votes: 0

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle! Votes: 0

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it Votes: 0

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. Votes: 0

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. Votes: 0

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is. Votes: 0

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential. Votes: 0

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes. Votes: 0

Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!! Votes: 0

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye. Votes: 0

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. Votes: 0

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Votes: 0

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. Votes: 0

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. Votes: 0

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle! Votes: 0

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys. Votes: 0

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun. Votes: 0

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly. Votes: 0

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm. Votes: 0

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. Votes: 0

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight. Votes: 0

I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries. Votes: 0

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles. Votes: 0

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. Votes: 0

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. Votes: 0

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. Votes: 0

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. Votes: 0

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both. Votes: 0

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. Votes: 0

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. Votes: 0

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end Votes: 0

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. Votes: 0

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch. Votes: 0

Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! Votes: 0

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing. Votes: 0

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. Votes: 0

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals. Votes: 0

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly. Votes: 0

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere. Votes: 0

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle. Votes: 0

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. Votes: 0

I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets. Votes: 0

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. Votes: 0

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist. Votes: 0

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road. Votes: 0

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom. Votes: 0

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake. Votes: 0

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle. Votes: 0

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Votes: 0

Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something! Votes: 0

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone. Votes: 0

The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley) Votes: 0

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script. Votes: 0

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. Votes: 0

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other. Votes: 0

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still. Votes: 0

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly Votes: 0

When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle. Votes: 0

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly Votes: 0

Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple! Votes: 0