Elizabeth Zimmermann Quotes

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

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• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • School

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Gucci

• If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Long
  • Training

• I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Need

• Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • America
  • Attention
  • Pain

• Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  

  Charles Dickens

• Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Learning
  • Brain

• I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Taken

• Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • She
  • High
  • Mom

• Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

  

  T. L. Osborn
  • God
  • Desire
  • Christian

• 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
  • Women
  • Christian
  • Achieve

• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• The sand as white as old bones, the pine trees strangely red where the sun comes down. I cannot say if it is our love, or the day, that is ending.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Sun
  • Red

• I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Passion
  • Same Way
  • Knit