Nails Quotes

505 quotes by 426 authors

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
Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails… — Chuck Klosterman
I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate… — Marian Keyes
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she… — Doris Lessing
Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as… — Charlaine Harris
With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one… — Bram Stoker
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. — Ian Mcewan
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love… — Graham Greene
Hellooo.â€ I held out my arm. â€œAn amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.â€ She reached out and scraped her short nails over… — Cheyenne McCray
And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or… — Karen Marie Moning
... 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
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. — Richelle Mead
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and… — Francesca Lia Block
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,… — Shel Silverstein
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 nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites. — Aleister Crowley

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