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“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.”

Mean Doe Body Asks Ego Eating Drinking Satisfaction Heavy Torn Patches Cloaks Sewing Eating And Drinking

Author:Rumi

“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids”

Reality Age Beautiful Interest Machines Tables Meetings Classic Bombs Unexpected Atoms Umbrella Sewing Atom Bomb Surrealist Dissecting

Author:H. R. Giger

“A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.”

Men Women Goes On Angry Tranquil Sewing Angry Man

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate”

World Mind Doe Made Grows Can Do Poor Fate Months Patient Busy Hopeless Prisoner Clothings Pondering Asylums Sewing Confinement

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.”

Guy Left Sports Numbers Struggle Trade Agents Sweat Uniforms November December January February Sewing Free Agents

Author:Whitey Herzog

“The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.”

Ifs Should Matter Body Dies Opinion Ordinary No Matter What Your Body Funeral You Choose Decay Donate Sewing Dissection Cadavers

Book:Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.”

House Behinds Mom Machines Moved My Mom Sewing

Author:Beth Ditto

“You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.”

People Knows Together Night Poverty Know How Creative Dresses Shirts T Shirt Glamorous Back Together Sewing

Author:Beth Ditto

“It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.”

Thinking Years I Can Effort Achieve Husband Work Out Trials Triumph My Husband Knitting Sewing Needlework

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.”

Life Girl Positive Poet Stones Rings Painter Farmers Portions Apology Jewels Thyself Corn Lambs Shepherds Miners Sewing Handkerchiefs

Book:Society and solitude, Letters and social aims

Source: Society and solitude, Letters and social aims

“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.”

Long Doe Culture Loses Christianity Teaching Long Time Seasons Good Things Western Sake Squares Salt Fabric Western Culture Sewing

Author:R. R. Reno

“I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.”

Thinking I Can Realizing Woods Sewing Quilts Tinkering

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.”

Stills Technology Nice Machines Extraordinary Mixtures Tangible Cds New Technology Ipods Ipads Sewing Old And New

Author:Twiggy

“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.”

Way Doe Would Be Lines Memories Our Lives Wife Shapes Tables Lays Patterns My Wife Kitchen Flats Our Memories Sewing Kitchen Table

Book:Battleborn

Source: Battleborn

“My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.”

Sometimes Helping Mother Busy Sewing Another Woman

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.”

“The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.”

Path Cutting Machines Plus Sewing Scissors Needlework

Author:Mason Cooley

“Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.”

Heart Home Healthy Gentle Accomplishment Characteristics Tokens Sewing Needlework Quilting

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.”

Law Grace Wipe Sewing

Author:Rod Parsley

“I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.”

Knows Broken Six Machines Variety Compass Hangover Cement Comets Sewing Boogie Gremlins

Book:Aunts Omnibus

Source: Aunts Omnibus

“Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.”

Made Together Family Pieces Color Proud Coats Mama Rags Sewing

Author:Dolly Parton