Nails Quotes

505 quotes by 426 authors

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow — Laurell K. Hamilton
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
King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined.… — John Flanagan
She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh,… — Julie Garwood
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the… — Jennifer Crusie
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail. — Ernest Hemingway
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked,… — Cassandra Clare
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
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a… — Jodi Picoult
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
The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go… — Gustave Flaubert
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
Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy… — Cassandra Clare
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts. — Bob Dylan

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