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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. -- Antonio Banderas
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch, -- Gayle Forman
Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything.""Says the man who'd just punch the haystack. -- Keith R.A. DeCandido
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack -- Zadie Smith
A big iron needle stitching the country together. -- Jessamyn West
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. -- Jewel
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. -- Don Hewitt
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. -- Abbie Hoffman
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. -- Harry Crosby
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. -- Winona Ryder
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. -- Rebecca West
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record. -- Hugh Laurie
My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible! -- Simon Le Bon
I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle. -- Willard Wigan
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on. -- Grandmaster Flash
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months. -- Paul Stamets
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on. -- Gwen Ifill
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. -- Michael Moore
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. -- Olivier Theyskens
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens. -- Philip Treacy
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. -- Ronnie Barker
Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory. -- Jack Nicklaus
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. -- Jesus Christ
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. -- Goldie Hawn
At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets? -- Jason Kilar
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. -- Ellen G. White
I watched the needle take another man. -- Neil Young
I've seen the needle and the damage done. -- Neil Young
Most haystacks do not even have a needle. -- Lorenzo Lamas
I am a haystack in a needle of time. -- Bryant McGill
I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen -- David Eddings
Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken. -- Seal
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein? -- Stevie Wonder
Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. -- Phil Donahue
The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can. -- Emily Dickinson
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. -- Thomas Hood
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.... -- William Butler Yeats
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts. -- Deborah Norville
Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! -- John C. Bogle
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. -- Charles Simic
Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle. -- Amy Webb
We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. -- Donna Shalala
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation. -- Caitlin Thomas
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. -- Lauren Willig
Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we're making the haystack bigger, -- Jesselyn Radack
Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell. -- Ray Hudson
Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind. -- Jack Dempsey
The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. -- Beryl Markham
Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn? -- W.S. Gilbert
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle -- Michael Ondaatje
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. -- Barton Booth
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. -- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial. -- Dov Davidoff
Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. -- Alice Cooper
You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. -- Daniel Mainwaring
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, -- Anne Bradstreet
Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world. -- George Zebrowski
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. -- Khaled Hosseini
I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet... -- SonReal
They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. -- Maya Bode
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. -- Ernst Gombrich
But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was? -- Mary Oliver
You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants. -- Alison Kemper
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it. -- Janet Maslin
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. -- James Hastings
We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind -- Terence McKenna
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. -- Adolf Hitler
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election. -- Adolf Hitler
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep. -- Leonard Cohen
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. -- Carrie Fisher
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. -- Etheridge Knight
You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle! -- Bert Kalmar
My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk. -- Jerry Hunt
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm. -- Samuel Shem
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. -- A. A. Gill
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -- W. S. Merwin
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential. -- Donald Trump
Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is. -- Maurice Sendak
A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it -- Edith Pattou
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. -- Charles Dickens
When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. -- Robert Duvall
I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle! -- Edith M. Thomas
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. -- Yukio Mishima
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. -- Thomas Hood
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. -- Jared Sandberg
The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye. -- William Butler Yeats
Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes. -- Elton John
Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!! -- Ryukishi07
the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly. -- Grace S. Richmond
I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm. -- Ed Westwick
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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. -- Maria Mitchell
I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun. -- Neil Young
I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight. -- Bob Dylan
In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. -- Herman Melville
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. -- Veronica Roth
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. -- Maria Mitchell
Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles. -- Albert Einstein
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. -- Ralph Cudworth
He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. -- Peter Jackson
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. -- Martin H. Fischer
The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. -- Mark Galli
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. -- George Herbert
Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. -- Russell Hoban
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. -- Mary Oliver
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end -- Amanda Palmer
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. -- Julia Alvarez
South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! -- Homer
You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
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