Stitches Quotes

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of 'The Defenders.'

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

I've had more than 200 stitches, only in the area of the eyes.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark - on both of you.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.

I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.

When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.