I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

- Ann Hood

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

- Clare Balding

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

- Dorothy Day

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

- Ellen Glasgow

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

- Ezer Weizman

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

- Magdalena Neuner

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

- Ryan Gosling

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

- Sufjan Stevens

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

- Sam Brownback

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

- Tony Curtis