Nails Quotes - Page 2

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

Kurt Schwitters

Artist, Names, Together

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

Men, Literature

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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

Faithful, Wrecks, Association

"The Talisman".

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I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Rick Springfield

Tools, Stuff, Nine

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I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

Mickey Rourke

Animal, Light, Focus And Concentration

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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

Richard Thompson

Song, Writing, Experience

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With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

Lisa Marie Presley

Girl, Yoga, Exercise

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I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

Lisa Marie Presley

Yoga, Exercise, Bites

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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wall, Artist, Vaccines

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I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

Charles Schumer

Fighting, Teeth, Vouchers

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As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Corrine Brown

Fighting, Cbc, White

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I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Brittany Snow

Real, Teenager, Mean

"The Pacifier - Q&A With Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot and Morgan York". Phase9 Interview, www.phase9.tv.

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I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Deana Carter

Europe, Firsts, Touring

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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Billy Sunday

Sports, Party, Florida

Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

Trent Reznor

Relationship, Goal, Gone

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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Kent McCord

Men, Guy, Abuse

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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Todd Solondz

Happiness, Laughter, People

Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Clive James

Dancing, Giants, Knocking

Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Cutting, America, People

Time magazine, September 09, 1985.

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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

Jack Nicholson

Two, Ladders, Way

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I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

Megan Fox

Tattoo, Nice, Cutting

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There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

Keith Haring

Strong, Use, Sometimes

Keith Haring, Kwong Chi Tseng (1986). “Keith Haring vue par Tseng Kwong Chi”

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Plato

Philosophical, Animal, Men

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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

Usher

Girlfriend, Dating, Going Out

"A Feminist Takedown of Usher’s ‘I Don’t Mind’" by Katie Chodosh, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.

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Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Bob Seger

Special, Now And Then

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