100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

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

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

We have no healthcare and we have all the guns in the world, it makes you think twice before you start throwing punches in a bar.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

A new music is a new mind.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.