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  • What do you like to do?" She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework." "Very restful, isn't it?" "Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it. -- George R. R. Martin
  • For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals. -- Betsy Byars
  • The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. -- Mason Cooley
  • The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. -- Lillian Hellman
  • Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. -- Honore de Balzac
  • A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 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. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow -- George R. R. Martin
  • Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
  • I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read. -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare -- Eduardo Ermita
  • Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind. -- Lucy Larcom
  • 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. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • ..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom." -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
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