Elizabeth Zimmermann Quotes

What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
  • Meat

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Why
  • Faith

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Afraid

• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Politics
  • Involved

• Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Writing

• Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Work
  • Long
  • Waiting

• When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Society
  • Community
  • Peace

• America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • America
  • Eyes

• What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • May
  • Feeling

• And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Eyes
  • Fence

• What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Eyes
  • Comparison
  • Knit