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I'm scared of needles. -- Dwyane Wade
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. -- Pam Brown
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -- Helen Keller
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. -- Sheena Easton
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
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. -- Orson Welles
Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic? -- RuPaul
Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box. -- Ry?nosuke Akutagawa
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Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. -- Jewel
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. -- Charles Simic
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. -- Abbie Hoffman
I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles. -- Jasmine Guinness
We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. -- Donna Shalala
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. -- Adolf Hitler
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. -- Rebecca West
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -- W. S. Merwin
Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine. -- Eva Simons
I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you. -- Josh Ryan Evans
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. -- Maria Mitchell
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays. -- Blake Lively
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody. -- Judith Leiber
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. -- Charles Clarke
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle. -- Nell Carter
I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff. -- Nick Robinson
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. -- William S. Burroughs
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms -- Daniel Boone
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
Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security. -- Jan C. Ting
Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years. -- Eric Davis
Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh. -- Steven Tyler
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that. -- Valerie Bertinelli
You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way. -- Jon Cryer
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
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
For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments. -- Christina Baker Kline
I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause. -- Rand Paul
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. -- Ann Hood
The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers. -- Mavis Staples
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job. -- Criss Angel
Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine? -- Elizabeth Holmes
I knew there was a way to blend records together, but I didn't know how to. This was haunting me when I was in my teens. In my frustration, I decided to start experimenting with electronics. I tested the torque factor on different turntables. I had to figure needles out. See, there are two kinds, elliptical and conical. -- Grandmaster Flash
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections? -- Steven Wright
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. -- Nick Cave
Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs. -- Joni Mitchell
It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles -- Jerry Stahl
If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably. -- Rob Ford
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face -- Cory Doctorow
Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large. -- Paul Samuelson
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. -- John Green
Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. -- Steve Jobs
I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine - those are the things I'll never touch again. -- Corey Feldman
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles. -- Henry Beard
We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles -- D. J. MacHale
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. -- Maggie Stiefvater
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them. -- Buwei Yang Chao
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? -- Lawrence Durrell
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals. -- Billie Letts
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong. -- Bodo Balsys
You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out. -- N.D. Wilson
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
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 -- Thomas Pynchon
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola -- Peter Piot
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them. -- Leslie Jamison
In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person. -- Cathy Hopkins
Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light. -- Philip Jose Farmer
[On acupuncture:] The needles are small and won't hurt at all. In fact, they'll feel good. Ha, ha! Just kidding. They feel like needles. Because they are. -- Jenny Lawson
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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. -- Vita Sackville-West
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. -- Lewis Carroll
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
. . . 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. -- Christopher Moore
Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good. -- Yoko Ono
Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues. -- Ward Churchill
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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. -- Jessica Day George

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