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“You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”

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Author:Daniel Mainwaring

“Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.”

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Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?”

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Book:The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

Source: The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

“Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.”

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Book:Alice Through the Looking Glass

Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass

“. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.”

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Author:Christopher Moore

“Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.”

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Author:Gregory Maguire

“I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen”

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Author:David Eddings

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

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Author:Elizabeth Zimmermann

“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”

Source: Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain

“Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.”

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Book:Princess of Glass

Source: Princess of Glass

“I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.”

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Author:Brian May

“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”

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Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.”

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Book:The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel

Source: The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel