Nails Quotes - Page 25

• Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

  Jefferson Davis

  Two, Together, Half

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• Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

  Chuck Klosterman

  Musical, Band, Nine

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• I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

  John Dos Passos

  Death, Time, Block

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

  Sofia Vergara

  Thinking, Care, Polish

  "Sofia Vergara Is a Woman We Love" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

  Fred Durst

  Writing, Long, Giving

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• You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watch…….., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.

  Vivian Kubrick

  Differences, Giving, Making A Difference

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• Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Cutting, Silence, Ears

  "No Exit". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

  Serena Williams

  Done, Likes, Nails Done

  "Serena Williams Studies To Become Nail Technician". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.

  Ellen Page

  Tough, Injured

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

  Kurt Schwitters

  Names, Clubs, Accepted

  "Kurt Schwitters, I is Style". Book by Jean Arp, p. 151, January 15, 2000.

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• I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

  Emma Watson

  Fun, Makeup, Clothes

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

  Michael Ende

  Doors, House, Giants

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Doe, Care

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

  Shaun White

  Work Out, Sticks, Tricks

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• I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.

  Emma Green Tregaro

  Simple, Thinking, Rainbow

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• Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

  Robert Bloch

  Jobs, Real, Years

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.50, The Overlook Press

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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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• Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photos—see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Littles, Paint, Macs

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.452, Dell

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• I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Morning, Guy

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• I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.

  Rachel Caine

  Never Forget, Excellent, Said

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.71, Allison & Busby

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• While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Light, Resemblance Is

  "On Photography".

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• It must be because you're so approachable", I say flatly. "You know, like a bed of nails." He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice. Heat rushes into my cheeks. What will happen when this tension breaks? But he just says, "Careful, Tris.

  Veronica Roth

  Dog, Eye, Choices

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.39, Harper Collins

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