Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.

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• Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Nature
  • Clear Messages

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Environment
  • Generation
  • Scientists

• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life

• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Black
  • Car
  • Driving

• We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

  

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • Small
  • Littles
  • Elephant

• A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.

  

  Gabi Hollows
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Party
  • Government
  • Chinese

• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Pictures
  • Effect
  • Merit

• I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Proud
  • Obsession
  • Arena

• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dreams
  • Forget
  • Awake

• OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Truth
  • Hurts
  • Else

• It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Death
  • Atmosphere
  • Presence

• We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Faces
  • Cases
  • Core

• You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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  • Knitting
  • Brides