Nail Quotes

277 Nail quotes by 241 unique authors

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
It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent,… — Steig Larsson
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like… — Robert Bloch
Itâ€™s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where youâ€™ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important.… — Jana Oliver
I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is… — Kristin Cashore

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