Tin Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. — Kurt Vonnegut
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the… — Jenny Downham
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. — Alan Bennett
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol… — Eduardo Galeano
It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have… — L. Frank Baum
Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.… — L. Frank Baum
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. — P.G. Wodehouse
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of TinÃºviel.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a… — Dorothy Parker
All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with… — L. Frank Baum
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me. — Jenny Downham
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall… — Frank O'Hara
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always… — Francesca Lia Block
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?â€”I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she… — Tennessee Williams
I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. — Terry Pratchett
Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he… — Hans Christian Andersen
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of… — Terry Pratchett

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