Yarn Quotes

Yarn Quote of the day

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

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

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

I can’t sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.