Nail Quotes

277 Nail quotes by 241 unique authors

I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on. — Emma Watson
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK,… — Shaun White
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count… — Henry David Thoreau
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may… — Jean-Paul Sartre
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. — Patrick Jones
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about… — Charles Dickens
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema… — Neil Gaiman
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of… — Antonin Artaud
Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the… — Kristin Cashore
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be… — George Bernard Shaw
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said,… — Roger Lowenstein
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… — Tom Robbins
One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures… — Mary Roach
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail. — Ernest Hemingway
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to… — Graham Greene
How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split… — Charles M. Schulz
The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. — Colum McCann
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off.… — Richard Paul Evans
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and… — Janet Fitch
I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget… — Jennifer Donnelly

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