Pins Quotes

• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

  Joan Didion

  Angel, Mind, Analysis

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.74, Zola Books

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• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Self Esteem, Pride, Achievement

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Religion, Solemn

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• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Business, Believe, Men

  "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.

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• Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

  Henri Bergson

  Doubt, Atheism, Reason

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• When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

  Mitt Romney

  Tails, Blame, Donkey

  "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Bullying, Children, Years

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• I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Travel, Fall

  "Making Maps, Second Edition" by John Krygier, Denis Wood, The Guilford Press, (p. 58), 2011.

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• Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

  Kassia

  Naked, Sin, Wealth

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• The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Tilt, Stones

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford

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• Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Fall, Light

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.401, Penguin

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• But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

  Neal Stephenson

  Suicidal, Cereal, Long

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Men, Purple

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, Going Away, Pay

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• Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn’t amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

  Jack Johnson

  Opportunity, Swings, Ideas

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

  Sam Altman

  Mind, Littles, Crosses

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• As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

  Ted Leo

  Guitar, Style, Jazz

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Selfish, Believe, Mean

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• What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hearing, Danger, Squires

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Eye, Fire

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• And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Mistake, Coffee

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Thinking, World, Maps

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.236, Random House

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• What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

  Catherine Anderson

  Brother, Fall, Thinking

  Catherine Anderson (2007). “Phantom Waltz”, p.19, Penguin

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• I hope President [Hamid] Karzai understands that our national security interests don't depend entirely on his decision there whether to allow a recount. Obviously the legitimacy of that government is an important component of it. My point is it shouldn't be the lynch pin for us deciding whether we're going to protect our national security interests in that region.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Government, Decision, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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