Zimmermann Quotes

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.