“The needle's worn the grooves too deep!”
In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)
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“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
From interview with Komal Nahta
“True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.”
Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin’d upon", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part iii, Canto ii, line 175.