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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. -- Dorothy Day
Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot. -- William Shakespeare
Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years. -- Lori Wilde
As I get older, I just prefer to knit. -- Tracey Ullman
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. -- John Lyly
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. -- Lee Trevino
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed. -- Jo Brand
I don't party. I'm a total homebody. I like hanging out with my cat, and I've actually been known to stay home and knit. -- Bethany Joy Lenz
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won. -- Albert Brooks
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! -- Tracey Ullman
For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace. -- Magdalena Neuner
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now! -- Julia Roberts
My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays. -- Gia Coppola
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas. -- Nancy Wake
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. -- George Eliot
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s. -- Nate Berkus
I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I can call friends, and I have a close knit group of friends whom I feel comfortable with. -- Pritam Chakraborty
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. -- Ann Hood
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term. -- Adelaide Clemens
During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way. -- Clayton Christensen
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality. -- Barbra Streisand
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting. -- Felicity Huffman
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them. -- Henry B. Eyring
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. -- Herb Caen
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me. -- Joe Gibbs
I have a tight-knit Southern family. -- Blake Lively
My immediate family is real close-knit. -- Kenan Thompson
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature. -- Vera Farmiga
He runs a very tightly knit ship -- Rob Hawthorne
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. -- Cassandra Clare
My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit. -- Robin Green
Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit -- Len Hutton
My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team. -- Logan Henderson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -- George Burns
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. -- Carlos Fuentes
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round -- John Milton
Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town. -- George Burns
You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn. -- Kate Jacobs
I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine. -- Scott Hutchison
I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly. -- Annie Lennox
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. -- Elena Roger
Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him. -- Junior Seau
Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends. -- Amber Tamblyn
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community. -- Sara Sheridan
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. -- Adolf Hitler
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else. -- Kim Carnes
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully. -- H. L. Mencken
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul. -- Oswald Chambers
The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people whove worked together for a really long time. -- Scott Aukerman
The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people who've worked together for a really long time. -- Scott Aukerman
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. -- Alan Lightman
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. -- John Steinbeck
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill. -- Ringo Starr
Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all. -- Allen Evangelista
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. -- William Matthews
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste. -- David Foster Wallace
I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much. -- Yoko Ono
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together. -- Ossie Davis
I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way. -- Charlie Siem
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine. -- Stephen Furst
Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life. -- Himanshu Chhabra
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days. -- Gabrielle Union
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected -- Robin Sloan
I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit. -- Cybill Shepherd
Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!" -- Mitch Hedberg
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children. -- Anne Hathaway
Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity -- Henry B. Eyring
I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends. -- Isabelle Fuhrman
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. -- Taylor Branch
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union. -- Adam Weishaupt
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. -- Carrie Brownstein
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. -- Scott Brooks
Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together. -- Cristela Alonzo
Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together. -- Timothy Keller
History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern. -- Rudolf Hess
You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself. -- Hannah Kearney
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. -- John Sterling
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. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology -- Paul McCreesh
Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one -- Mike Krzyzewski
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. -- Paula McLain
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it. -- Bobby Ghosh
The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are. -- Konrad Lorenz
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one. -- William Cowper
In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends. -- Tom Anderson
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department. -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus. -- Laura Mvula
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization. -- Walt Disney
The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other. -- Ron Conway
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption . -- Jimmy Carter
I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. -- Lester B. Pearson
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. -- Tony Kushner
You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Can you be sure?" "I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them. -- Jessica Day George
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed. -- Jasmine Jean
My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern. -- Cam Newton
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day. -- Leif Enger
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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