Pinned Quotes

86 quotes by 84 authors

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was… — Geraldine Brooks
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if… — Virginia C. Andrews
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary — Aron Nimzowitsch
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned… — Robert Breault
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. — Stephen Rea
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the… — Tony Dungy
I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can… — David James Duncan
I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head [he walked into a street sign… — Kanye West
When I showed â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ in MalmÃ¶, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this huge space in… — Nancy Spero
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go… — Ian Hart
In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they… — Hafsat Abiola
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket. — Gino Bartali
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box. — Paul Saffo
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to… — David Jenkins
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. — Horace Greeley
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger
If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as… — Neil L. Andersen
Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. — Thom Mayne

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