Quotes & Sayings About Sewing Machines

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. — Marcel Pagnol

I like driving cab. Receptionists, sales clerks, waitresses -- they all have to look pleasant all the time. I can snarl if I want. There ain't too many women who can do that. Maybe garment workers are allowed to snarl at their sewing machines. But women mostly have to look pleasant when they're fucking miserable, and smile when they're angry. — Helen Potrebenko

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. — Jack Horner

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me. — Neal Stephenson

There are some old machines like antique sewing machine or pasta machine; seeing them is seeing our great grandmothers, touching them is touching our grandmothers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think. — Cate Blanchett

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. — Elizabeth Arden

I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all. — P.G. Wodehouse

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer. — Frank Carson