Top 340 Needle Quotes & Sayings

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

I can't look when my blood is drawn and I hyperventilate when I see a needle. I hate it.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles." "Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

If Seattle could put my jersey on top of the Space Needle, they would.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

I watched the needle take another man.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.