You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.