Tin Quotes

• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Determined

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• After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

  George Harrison

  Swings, Pieces, Selling

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• What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Dog, Names

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• You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspiration, Mean, Iron

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.381, Bantam

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• They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

  David Gemmell

  Horse, Real, Gold

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Life, Moving Forward

  1960 Beyond the Fringe.

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Roof

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Long, Victory

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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• Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Half, Time Goes By, Outrun

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.161, New Directions Publishing

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• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Tin Cans, Tails, News

  April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

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• When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

  Kevin Costner

  Inspirational, Defining Moments, Sports Movie

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• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Baby, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Hero, Tired

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Feet, Cradle

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• He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Morning, Heart, Gun

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

  Dr. Seuss

  Space, Coats, Thanks

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

  Sharon Olds

  Grandma, Laughing, Teeth

  Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.18, Knopf

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• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Tired, Hollywood

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• Come away with in the night
  Come away with me
  And I will sing you a song
  Come away with me on a bus
  Come away where they can't tempt us
  With there lies
  I want to walk with you
  On a cloudy day
  In fields where the yellow grass grows
  Knee-high
  So won't you try to come
  Come away with me and we'll kiss
  On a mountain top
  Come away with me
  And I'll never stop loving you
  And I want to wake up with the rain
  Falling on a tin roof
  While I'm safe there in your arms
  So all I ask is for you
  To come away with me in the night
  Come away with me.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Lying, Rain

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• Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Blow, Cities

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• Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baffled, Peas

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• (On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

  Brian Cox

  Years, Water, Sun

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