Needle
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
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Needle Quotations
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus Christ
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
Maria Mitchell
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Adolf Hitler
If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.
Gwen Ifill
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Jessamyn West
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.
Goldie Hawn
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
Grandmaster Flash
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Martin H. Fischer
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Nell Carter
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel
You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
Bert Kalmar
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic
My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.
Jerry Hunt
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.
Harry Crosby
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
Don Hewitt
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth
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Needle Translations
needle in Dutch is naald
needle in Finnish is neula
needle in German is Nadel
needle in Italian is ago, spilla
needle in Portuguese is alfinete, agulha
needle in Spanish is alfiler, aguja
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