Gregory Maguire Quotes

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

Yarn, patterns, and needle sizes have come such a long way since your grandmother's afghans. Creatively, there is just so much to get into, so much to play with. It's an amazing way to turn inward and get off your phone.

After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.

I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.

We have to be prepared for change.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?