Yarnaholic Quotes & Sayings

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. — Laurence Yep

In Del Mar I'd given him my heart. I knew that now, because today he'd broken it.
- Charli — Aleatha Romig

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things. — Winston S. Churchill

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough. — Debbie Macomber

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person. — Napoleon Hill

The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress. — Gail Carriger

Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don't know. The only things you will remember are things you care about. — Jonathan Tepper

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera

Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say. — T.F. Hodge

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me. — Diane Keaton

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did. — Alexander Hanson

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. — Neil Simon

We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason. — S.E. Hinton

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up. — Ambroise Vollard