Pins Quotes
283 Pins quotes by 245 unique authors
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I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.
— Amy Winehouse
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of…
— Robert Wyatt
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Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you…
— Chuck Yeager
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The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I…
— Margaret Atwood
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But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick…
— Tim Burton
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it…
— Tom Robbins
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Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination…
— Tom Waits
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Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it…
— Gary Gygax
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
— Margaret Atwood
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon
— Christopher Paolini
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It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of…
— Jessica Day George
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Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you…
— David Sedaris
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Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
— Holly Black
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Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into…
— Kim Edwards
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
— Louise Erdrich
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Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.
— Ilona Andrews
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And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
— David Foster Wallace
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It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin…
— Elizabeth Strout
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What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over…
— Catherine Anderson
Who Wrote These Pins Quotes
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