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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

Antonio Banderas

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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

Gayle Forman

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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

Keith R.A. DeCandido

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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

Zadie Smith

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

Jessamyn West

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

Jewel

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

Don Hewitt

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

Timothy Leary

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Harry Crosby

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

Timothy Leary

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

Winona Ryder

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

Rebecca West

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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

Hugh Laurie

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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

Simon Le Bon

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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

Willard Wigan

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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

Grandmaster Flash

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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

Paul Stamets

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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

Rumi

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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

Gwen Ifill

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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

Michael Moore

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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

Olivier Theyskens

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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

Philip Treacy

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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

Ronnie Barker

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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

Jack Nicklaus

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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

Jesus Christ

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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

Goldie Hawn

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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

Jason Kilar

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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

Ellen G. White

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I watched the needle take another man. Votes: 0

Neil Young

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

Neil Young

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

Lorenzo Lamas

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

Bryant McGill

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

David Eddings

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

Seal

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Stevie Wonder

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

Catherynne M. Valente

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

Phil Donahue

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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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

Thomas Hood

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Deborah Norville

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

John C. Bogle

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

Charles Simic

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

Amy Webb

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

Donna Shalala

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

Caitlin Thomas

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

Lauren Willig

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

Jesselyn Radack

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

Ray Hudson

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

Jack Dempsey

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

Beryl Markham

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

W.S. Gilbert

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

Michael Ondaatje

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

Barton Booth

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

Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

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

Dov Davidoff

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

Alice Cooper

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

Daniel Mainwaring

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

Anne Bradstreet

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

George Zebrowski

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

Khaled Hosseini

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

SonReal

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

Maya Bode

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

Ernst Gombrich

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

Mary Oliver

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

Alison Kemper

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

Janet Maslin

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

James Hastings

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

Terence McKenna

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

Adolf Hitler

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

Adolf Hitler

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

Leonard Cohen

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

Carrie Fisher

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

Etheridge Knight

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

Bert Kalmar

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

Jerry Hunt

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

Samuel Shem

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

A. A. Gill

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

W. S. Merwin

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

Donald Trump

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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

Maurice Sendak

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

Edith Pattou

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

Charles Dickens

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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

Robert Duvall

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

Edith M. Thomas

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

Yukio Mishima

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

Thomas Hood

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

Jared Sandberg

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Elton John

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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

Ryukishi07

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

Grace S. Richmond

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

Ed Westwick

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

Soledad O'Brien

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

Maria Mitchell

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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

Neil Young

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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

Gwyneth Paltrow

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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

Bob Dylan

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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

Herman Melville

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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

Veronica Roth

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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

Maria Mitchell

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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

Albert Einstein

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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

Ralph Cudworth

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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

Peter Jackson

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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

Mata Amritanandamayi

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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

Martin H. Fischer

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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

Mark Galli

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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

George Herbert

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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

Russell Hoban

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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

Mary Oliver

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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

Amanda Palmer

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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

Julia Alvarez

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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

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

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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

Homer

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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

Sue Monk Kidd

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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

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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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

Shaquille O'Neal

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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

Miyamoto Musashi

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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

Elizabeth Berg

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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

Astro Teller

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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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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

Nell Carter

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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

Eddie Izzard

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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

Andrea Gibson

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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

Vincent Van Gogh

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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

Tess Gerritsen

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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

Andrew O'Hagan

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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

Al Pacino

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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

Horace Greeley

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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

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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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

Anonymous

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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

Hunter S. Thompson

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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

Mehmet Murat ildan

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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

Joseph Addison

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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

Louise Erdrich

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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

Vera Nazarian

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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

Mark Twain

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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

Katherine Catmull

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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

David Levithan

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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

Caroline Emelia Stephen

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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

Chogyam Trungpa

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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

Jacques Barzun

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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

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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

Caroline Wells Healey Dall

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Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

Joan Collins

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It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

Cassandra Clare

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I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

Peter Jackson

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In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Jodi Picoult

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The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

Matthew Specktor

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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

Bill Hybels

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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.

Maria Bartiromo

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When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

Arcangela Tarabotti

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Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

Kathy Reichs

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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

Robert E. Lee

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

Ramakrishna

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I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Neal Stephenson

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Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

Tite Kubo

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You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.

Kathe Koja

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I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

Isaac Newton

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The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls"he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Michael Scott

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I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.

Nat Friedman

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Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.

Michelle Goldberg

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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Myrtle Reed

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I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Ron Fournier

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When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

Louise Bourgeois

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Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Thomas Hood

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The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didnât know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadnât dared to be.

Brent Weeks

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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Sarah Fielding

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Needle And Thread (59 quotes)

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Votes: 2 Thomas Hood

Needle In A Haystack (35 quotes)

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. Votes: 4 P. G. Wodehouse

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