Nails Quotes

• Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Failure, House

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 25, 2017

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• The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

  William Maxwell

  Circumstances, Magnet

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Victim, Righteous

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• Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

  Caroline Corr

  Polish, Nail Polish

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

  Marian Keyes

  Choices, Different, Done

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thinking, Hammers, Social Psychology

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Overcoming, Habit

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• Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Painting

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• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Kwanzaa, Purpose And Direction

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Mark Twain

  Hammers, Looks

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Fake People, Would Be, Stumps

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• I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

  Anderson Cooper

  Jobs, Pride, Done

  "The agony of adult nail biters" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 2003.

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• I make sure the foods I eat will benefit the appearance of my hair, skin and nails.

  Erin Heatherton

  Hair, Skins, Benefits

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• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.

  Bart Stupak

  Fighting, Example, Teeth

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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Wings, Teeth

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• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Dark, Acting, Hammers

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• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  Sammy Hagar

  Brother, Writing, Feet

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• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Hammers, Acceptable, Jokes

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

  John Mortimer

  Law, Common Sense, Cleaning

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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• In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

  Scott Caan

  Guy, Hollywood, Today

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• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Coffins, Driving

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• I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.

  Grey DeLisle

  Voice, Sound, Watches

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• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  Orlando Bloom

  Dirty, Boys, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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