Stephanie Quotes

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

It’s all about getting them back in, and I think…my husband and I talk about it all the time…it’s about making it personal for the guest.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.

I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I wish for the thing that is best for me.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.

Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Be happy, we’re worth more broken.