Tin Quotes
149 quotes by 128 authors
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Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in…
— Sonya Hartnett
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home…
— Jack Kerouac
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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.…
— Terry Pratchett
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Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
— George R. R. Martin
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Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat…
— Charlie Higson
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I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that…
— Harper Lee
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I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets…
— Janice Galloway
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand…
— Tennessee Williams
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Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?
— Kami Garcia
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But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from…
— L. Frank Baum
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Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and…
— George R. R. Martin
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Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like…
— Dr. Seuss
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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America…
— Jess Walter
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He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said…
— L. Frank Baum
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...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as…
— Anthony Burgess
Who Wrote These Tin Quotes
128 authors contributed a total of 149 Tin Quotes, led by these top contributors: