Tin Quotes
149 quotes by 130 authors
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On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden…
— Tom Robbins
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I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of…
— Aristotle Onassis
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Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
— Lee Wulff
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Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'
— Ari Fleischer
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Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get…
— Mark Slouka
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
— Amy Waldman
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff…
— Steve Coogan
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
— John Hersey
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There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
— Branford Marsalis
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
— Rudyard Kipling
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?
— Mickey Rivers
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You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely…
— John Heilemann
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Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang…
— Tom Chapin
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I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand…
— Sam Peckinpah
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My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.
— Sharon Stone
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Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
— Mary Karr
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My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by…
— Brian Andreas
Who Wrote These Tin Quotes
130 authors contributed a total of 149 Tin Quotes, led by these top contributors: