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April 21, 2008

George Bernard Shaw

If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 26 July 1856–2 November 1950

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April 18, 2008

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Writer and Aviator, 29 June 1900—31 July 1944 ,

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April 14, 2008

Judy Garland

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland, Actor/Singer, 1922-69

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November 20, 2007

Keep going

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho.

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September 30, 2007

Tove Jansson

Best not to think about it too much but try and put everything right as quickly as possible with a good deed.
German Measles, The Winter Book, Tove Jansson, writer and artist, 1914-2001

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August 16, 2007

Germaine Greer

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic
1939 - present

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August 10, 2007

Oliver Postgate

I was going to find a quote from Postgate's website. But his 2004 piece on Iraq is so compelling I thought I would recommend the whole piece instead. Go read.

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July 26, 2007

Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes, Actor, 1900-1993

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April 18, 2007

Joan Collins

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Joan Collins OBE
Born May 23, 1933, actress and bestselling author.

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March 13, 2007

Zodiac Mindwarp

Elvis went to heaven baby
Died for all our sins
The son of God in his killer flares
Sunglasses, and sequins .....

Zodiac Mindwarp, Elvis Died For You

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February 20, 2007

Terry Eagleton

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Terry Eagleton (born February 22, 1943), British literary critic and philosopher.

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February 12, 2007

Russell Brand

The culture of celebrity flings another soul on to the pyre to fuel the TV glow for another few pointless hours.

Russell Brand (UK comedian, TV & radio presenter, shagmonster and hairspray advocate) on the US TV coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, The Guardian Football section, Saturday 10 February 2007.

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December 04, 2006

Street Art Workers: Knit for the revolution poster

Street Art Workers, Utopia/Dystopia, 2003

Back in 2003 (before glittyknittykitty) Street Art Workers had a project entitled Utopia/Dystopia.

One of the posters in the series making up the project was a poster about knitting.... three (nearly four) years later the message is not lost. Not only in this poster, but in most of the series of 22 posters, most of which have a sustainability message.

Many folks excel at criticizing the existing order, but people seldom articulate what they want. As we struggle for a better world, we´re forced to define what that world might look like. Do you envision a society broken down under the weight of capitalism or do you hold out hope for the forces of liberty and equality? In 2003 we put these thoughts on the streets to inspire visions for the future.

Street Art Workers, 2003.

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December 01, 2006

Lisa Anne Auerbach

This is a call for a dynamic, new direction for knitting!

Lay down the eyeleash yarn and giant needles and pick up a project that's thoughtful, elegant and odd.

Reclaim knitting! it is a noble craft. It is NOT the new yoga. Repetitive and unthinking motions will kill the soul. Knitting is creating.

Down with simple and boring! Up with thoughtful and complex!

Shatter the present. Create the future. Stitch by stitch we can and will change the world. The revolution is at hand and knitting needles are the only weapons you'll need. Stop making scarves; start making trouble.

Consume less. Create more. Knitting is politcal. BEGIN IMMEDIATELY.

Excerpts from Lisa Anne Auerbach article in Knit, Knit no. 4 2006.

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August 24, 2006

Banksy

If you want an audience, start a fight.

Banksy.

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August 04, 2006

Freedom of Expression vs. Hate

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated

George Benard Shaw

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August 02, 2006

Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

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July 04, 2006

Quotes from Kiss Machine: the Revolution Issue.

Some of the Collected Poems of Valentino the Robot

We are animals (except for me). This is my claw, outstretched and trembling for a world built from isoceles triangles.

Jordon Somers

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Purlpower

It's only worth having if you can taste the goat.

Purlpower, Honorary Knittivist, Woolfest 2006.

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June 20, 2006

Quotes from Kiss Machine: the Revolutionary Issue

Thanks to my SP, we have our first quote from Kiss Machine: the Revolutionary Issue, a Toronto-based magazine of short stories, poetry, journalism and photography.

First Failed Proposal For a World That Won't Hurt
In this world,
It is widely known that
the holes in each person's
socks correspond to
weaknesses of character.

Upon meeting, people
take turns trying on one another's socks over
top of their own.

If the holes in two people's socks
cover for each other, they
instantly mate for life~
together making one whole sock,
perfectly fitted.

Shannon Gerard, 2006, Kiss Machine #13

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June 18, 2006

World Cup football pattern

Thanks to whipup.net for pointing us in the direction of the World Cup 2006 knitting pattern for a football courtesy of Needle Exchange. Available as a PDF to download too. You could even knit it whilst being part of Stop the world cup...... or whilst watching your favourite team play.

Vinda-looooooo
Vinda-looooooo
Vindaloo, vindaloo, la laaaaaa........

Fat Les, 1998.

An earworm from the football song with the best football song video. Ever. And it contains the lyrics,

Can I introduce you, please
To a lump of cheddar cheese
Knit one, purl one, drop one, curl one

Class. And for our non-UK reader, you get to hear how England gets an extra syllable in football chants, to become Engerland. Important stuff.

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June 06, 2006

Captain Jack Sparrow

There will come a moment when you can do the right thing

Elizabeth Swann

I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by

Cap'n Jack Sparrow

From the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

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June 03, 2006

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist

Salman Rushdie (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)

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May 31, 2006

Emma Goldman

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everyboy's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940), feminist heroine, anarchist activist, editor, writer, teacher, jailbird and general trouble-maker.

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April 27, 2006

Bill Drummond

You can lose yourself in making soup. The imagination can start to spiral into uncharted regions; reality can become bearable, even enjoyable. You can find yourself as well.

Bill Drummond, 45

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April 11, 2006

Phrase of the day

Anthropodermic bibliopegy appears in a BBC news story about an old ledger found on The Headrow in Leeds, bound in human skin. Find out more about the practice at Wikipedia.

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April 08, 2006

Athur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud French poet, 1854-1891

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March 27, 2006

Dorothy Parker

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Dorothy Parker (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)

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March 26, 2006

Marquis de Sade

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Marquis De Sade (French nobleman and Novelist 1740-1814)

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March 25, 2006

Mark Twain

It's spring fever.... You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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March 23, 2006

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love

From Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809- 1892)

Apt as it's the 3rd day of Spring. More to come....

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March 03, 2006

Terry Pratchett

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ...

The Science of Discworld

That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

The Colour of Magic

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.

The Light Fantastic

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever' he said.
'Have you thought of going into teaching?'

Mort
Terry Pratchett (1948 - tba)

Loads more from wikiquote.

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January 25, 2006

Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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January 15, 2006

Nietzsche

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

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January 05, 2006

Gandalf

Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time...while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth.

Gandalf, Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein