Tin Quotes - Page 3

• Here I sit, alone at 60,
  Bald and fat and full of sin
  Cold the seat, and loud the cistern
  As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

  Alan Bennett

  Birthday, Cold, Sin

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Dad, Coffee, Years

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• The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

  Thomas Beecham

  Skeletons, Two, Musical

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• It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why?

  Ken Bates

  Keith, Biscuits, Miles

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• Leaves like rusty tin
  for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
  the barest glimmerings.
  Leaves aswirl with gulls
  made wild by winter.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Winter, Mind, Gulls

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• Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

  Ari Fleischer

  Scare, Needs, Horns

  "Ari Fleischer gives inside account of 9/11 on Twitter", www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

  Mark Slouka

  Angel, Fate, Doors

  Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

  Amy Waldman

  America, Gold, Bangladesh

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

  Peter Bradshaw

  School, Intelligent, Oxford

  "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

  Robert Plant

  Spring, Voice, Sound

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Tin Cans, Kitchen

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• It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Loneliness, Heart, Wicked

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• I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

  Al Gore

  Mold, Tin Tin

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• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Brain, World

  L. Frank Baum (2014). “The Wonderful Stories Of Oz: All 14 Books”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Eggs, Meals

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fall, Afternoon, Sheets

  P. G. Wodehouse (1992). “Mr. Mulliner Speaking”, Random House (UK)

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• Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long Ago, Sea, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

  Sean Connery

  Scotland, Fantasy

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• I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Rain, Sheep, Anecdotes

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• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Holiday, Car, Dying

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Kissing, First Love

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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