Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts."
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Stitches
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"The more stitches, the less riches."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"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."
Cynthia Lennon
Author, Musician
"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."
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"Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily."
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"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."
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