Nails Quotes - Page 12

• Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail

  Greg Evigan

  Mother, Night, Two

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• I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.

  Khleo

  Fun, Math, Numbers

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• It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Animal, People, Abuse

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Morality, Hard

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.

  Kai Greene

  Focus, Trying, Hammers

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• The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
  But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Opposites, Hammers

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• Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

  Rooney Mara

  Character, Ipods, Black

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• She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Husband, Air, Choices

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Kiss an Angel”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Coffee, Tables

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• Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

  Kelly Cates

  Football, Brain, Too Much

  Kelly Cates @KellyCates, twitter.com. January 23, 2011.

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• If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

  Doris Lessing

  Dog, People, One Day

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.46, Heinemann

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• Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Kings, Gun

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• Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

  Julie Burchill

  Fun, Mistake, Hair

  "A suitable case for treatment". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• I draw like other people bite their nails.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

  Sandra Bullock

  People, Laughing, Comedy

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• Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

  William A. Connelly

  Mean, Army, Knowing

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• Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  William Shakespeare (1871). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice”, p.623

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• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

  Ian Mcewan

  Depression, Firsts, Persons

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• That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?

  K.J. Parker

  Time, Waiting, Enemy

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• Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.

  Charlaine Harris

  Letting Go, Blood, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead”, p.113, Penguin

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• When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Marketing, Hammers, Looks

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Basic Books

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• The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Should Have, Law

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.175, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

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