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283 Pins quotes by 245 unique authors

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It… — Haruki Murakami
I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down — Groucho Marx
I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer. — Jean-Paul Belmondo
Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds… — Samuel Beckett
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright… — Ann Patchett
We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed… — Mary Robinson
Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows… — Jeff Buckley
I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state… — Kurt Angle
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. — Frankie Avalon
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul... — Israel Zangwill
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush. — Andrew Sullivan
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them. — Charles Edward Montague
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life,… — Leo Tolstoy
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive.… — Carlo Wolff
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? — Thomas Carlyle
I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it. — Madeleine Albright
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture… — Lee Iacocca
Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really… — Lee Iacocca
I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for… — Frances O'Grady
Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success. — Yasser Arafat
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum… — Anne-Marie Slaughter
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those… — Mercedes Lackey
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven,… — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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