A Quote by Elizabeth Zimmermann

Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

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Elizabeth Zimmermann
August 9, 1910 - November 30, 1999

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

Teddy Thompson

The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.

Laura Mullen

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

Mitch Hedberg

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

Ann Reinking

My most-used word was no! I said no to pockets, no to zippers, no to extra loops. In the end, all the products were so slim and light.

Ueli Steck

History is about loops and continuums.

Mike Bidlo

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

Mick Fleetwood

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

Burt Bacharach

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Brian Eno

By 2020, cargo loops should be working. By 2022, we should have people transport working.

Shervin Pishevar

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Linus Torvalds

The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together.

Jessie J

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old '50s and '60s pop and soul and doo-wop records. I was chopping those up and putting loops and drums on them and just rapping over them.