Nails Quotes - Page 11

• The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

  Colum McCann

  Stars, Fall, Sky

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Stupid, Design, Splits

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• I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Wrinkles, Years

  "DVF Up Close". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

  Antonin Artaud

  One Day, Twisted, Lost

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• She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Doctors, Skins, Done

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• A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Armor, Weapons

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.153, Revell

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• And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?" I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sorry, Mean, Sarcasm

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.76, Delacorte Press

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

  Terry Pratchett

  Artist, Special, Thieves

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• She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.

  Nick Hornby

  Sadness, Feelings, Tragedy

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

  Jim Butcher

  Mad, Paper, Moments

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin Group

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• Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

  Bob Dylan

  Matter, Deputies, Preacher

  Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

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• Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.

  Cassandra Clare

  Black, Mud, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Heart, Dust

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• Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.

  Graham Greene

  Hair, Years, Waiting

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

  John Calvin

  Fighting, Teeth, Faults

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• With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?

  Bram Stoker

  Blood, Hands, Long

  Bram Stoker (1993). “Dracula”, p.240, Wordsworth Editions

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  1881 Letter.

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• I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.

  Ann Kok

  Jobs, Hate, Makeup

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• I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Awkward, Lots Of Friends, Arms

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Luxury, Progress

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• The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.

  Ron Paul

  Friday, Doe, Coffins

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• Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better - fine. But you don't need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled. Religion is like a lift in the shoe, and I say just don't ask me to wear your shoes. And let's not go down and nail lifts onto the natives' feet.

  George Carlin

  Feel Better, Shoes, Feet

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