“There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.” PeopleValuesProcessBrainTalkingPagesGardenPhonesStuckVegetablesSoupEmailDiggingKnittingChoppingTime AwayGreat ValueStuck Up Author:Chellie Pingree
“But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.” IfsMenWritingBookWarTalkingBoysLaughingViolenceGenerationsBloodPaintingHeroEgoSoldierWarmBritishContemptDoomedFuture GenerationKnittingHistory BooksCockroachesContemptuousFoxholes Author:J. D. Salinger
“I love the way knitting brings people together.” PeopleWayTogetherKnitting Book:A Good Yarn Source: A Good Yarn
“Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'” NeedsCommunityInvolvedSurroundingsKnittingPopping Author:Ron Conway
“Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.” PeopleLooksI CanOpportunityWaitingLinesTvsMonthsEach DayPairsBusRidingExquisiteSockBucketsLaceWasted TimeKnittingTime SpentWatching TvNeedleworkMittensWaiting In Line Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.” MenTeaEstatesSpinningForsakeKnittingSplittingNeedlework Author:Benjamin Franklin
“It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.” KnowsHumansPersonsStarsConditionsWho You ArePaintTrackHuman ConditionKnittingWatercolors Author:Tony Curtis
“I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCareSubjectsSticksTopicsKnitting Author:Sam Brownback
“Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'” PeopleNeedsGrowthCommunityCompanyInvolvedSticksAccomplishmentSurroundingsKnittingPopping Author:Ron Conway
“I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.” PeopleThinkingSportsBaseballKnitting Author:Sutton Foster