Stitches Quotes

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework,
any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

John's relationship with each of the other Beatles was different. He was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who often had him in stitches with his jokes.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.

When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.

But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.

When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark - on both of you.

To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

The stitch of a book is its words.

Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-

I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.