Quotes about Sewing

I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all. Votes: 4

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Votes: 3

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Votes: 3

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. Votes: 2

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Votes: 2

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember. Votes: 2

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. Votes: 2

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. Votes: 2

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. Votes: 2

The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. Votes: 2

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture. Votes: 2

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. Votes: 2

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. Votes: 2

Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping. 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

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. Votes: 2

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. Votes: 2

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. Votes: 2

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Votes: 2

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. Votes: 2

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. Votes: 2

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. Votes: 2

I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary. Votes: 2

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too. Votes: 2

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child. Votes: 2

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. Votes: 2

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine. Votes: 2

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!' Votes: 2

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Votes: 0

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping. Votes: 0

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach) Votes: 0

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer. Votes: 0

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming. Votes: 0

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together. Votes: 0

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. Votes: 0

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. Votes: 0

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. Votes: 0

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. Votes: 0

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. Votes: 0

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. Votes: 0

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design. Votes: 0

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. Votes: 0

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch Votes: 0

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. Votes: 0

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery. Votes: 0

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like. Votes: 0

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. Votes: 0

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. Votes: 0

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole. Votes: 0

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. Votes: 0

Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that? Votes: 0

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. Votes: 0

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday. Votes: 0

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. Votes: 0

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it. Votes: 0

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. 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

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night. Votes: 0

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. Votes: 0

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are. Votes: 0

Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues. Votes: 0

In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark. Votes: 0