Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow.
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never see...”
“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”
“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”
“Thousands of cars and a million guitarsScreaming with power in the air!We've found the place where the decibels raceThis army of rock will be thereTo ram it downRam it down!Straight to the heart of...”
“Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down”
“The world has a way of dragging down our mood.”
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
“Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?”
“It turns out that knitting isn't about the yarn or the softness or needing a hat (although we really can't argue with these secondary motivators). It's really about this: Knitting is a magic trick....”
“I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.”