Quotes About Nails

#1. There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

James Russell Lowell

#2. Will we ever learn and truly see, when we continue turning a blind eye to those in despair, that are in badly need ... we help assist darkness put nails in the coffin of humanity.

Timothy Pina

#3. I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

Margaret Thatcher

#4. I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

Troian Bellisario

#5. I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

Dolly Parton

#6. If there are princes involved, you should stay out of their way." Jerry's smile softened his hard-as-nails persona. "I wish I could." I smiled my own half-hearted smile. "Maybe they should stay outta my way?" He chuckled, the sound of his laughter soft and delicious. "Maybe.

Pippa DaCosta

#7. I recently finished a job, an HBO movie 'Getting On,' a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.

Niecy Nash

#8. I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#9. She wrote she heard them hammering nails all day long and that it was like living next to a coffin maker after a plague. When

Joe Hill

#10. But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like, unrequited love.

Margaret Atwood

#11. As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she'd been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still remained a number of nails. The

Donna Leon

#12. Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

Alan Redpath

#13. It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. April. Spring was on the land like an itch. The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake - lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold calcium that lies beneath our tingles.

Tom Robbins

#15. What is it you want?"
My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said.

Kim Harrison

#16. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.

Lemony Snicket

#17. Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

Richelle Mead

#18. I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Venus Williams

#19. You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

Brion Gysin

#20. Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.

Max Heindel

#21. To a hammer, every problem is a nail," we said on the team but we called him 'the screwdriver'. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.

Massimo Marino

#22. Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts. He glanced through the window toward the glowing light of the kitchen where Meg and my mom were laughing about something.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#23. It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. 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

#25. My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Dolly Parton

#26. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#27. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

#28. Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here"
"I see that," I say as Noah whispers a very soft, "I love you."
"What?" Megan asks.
"Nothing," Noah says, then pulls back and walks to the other side of the desk.

Ally Carter

#29. There was something satisfying about swinging the hammer, hitting the nails, and fixing the porch. It made me feel strong. It made me feel powerful.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#30. An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

Anthony Doerr

#31. When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

Robert Kagan

#32. The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.

Tammy Taylor

#33. Let's see, what've we got for the little girl to eat? Nothing, I hoped, but he brought a tin of Christmas candies, which seemed to have melted then hardened then melted again, so the colored stripes had run. They had a taste of nails.

Alice Munro

#34. She was a tiny girl - a trinket brunette, very pretty, very pale, and hard as nails.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#35. Nice work," I said, alluding to her nails. "Maura, at The Hair Palace, does them. She's a genius with nails, and she'll bikini wax you till you're bald as a billiard ball.

Janet Evanovich

#36. I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Sara Blakely

#37. Silence took one of the burlap sacks from her pack and handed it to William Ann, then removed her hammer. It wasn't some war weapon, like her grandfather had spoken of. Just a simple tool for pounding nails. Or other things.

Brandon Sanderson

#38. Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague,

Margaret Atwood

#39. I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails.

Sania Mirza

#40. If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

Bruce Oldfield

#41. But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

Daisy Berkowitz

#42. I tear at the air with glass nails
that have learned to scale
mountains of mirrors.

Valentina Cano

#43. I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

Calvin Klein

#44. Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors and add a bunch of accessories and some cool shoes to jeans and a T-shirt.

China Anne McClain

#45. He smiled. "we go inside."
"I'm going to get tetanus in there." I grumbled.
"Don't go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you'll be fine."
"You're an ass.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#46. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

D.H. Lawrence

#47. I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

Zoe Saldana

#48. I am essence of Rose Solitude
my cheeks are laced with cognac
my hips sealed with five satin nails
I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
flames
between the musk of fat
and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

Jayne Cortez

#49. Margot? Sad?" Chris picks at her nails. "Margot doesn't have normal human emotions like the rest of us.

Jenny Han

#50. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Jane Goodall

#51. What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

Gina Rodriguez

#52. I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

Evelyn Lauder

#53. You know one thing I always wanted in a man?" "What?" "Clean fingernails." Justin laughed and looked at his own hand as Amira played with his fingers. "That's a pretty easy request." "You'd be surprised how many men have dirty nails. I don't mean on top. I mean underneath." "I

Celeste Stewart

#54. I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

Josh Lanyon

#55. They would beat him and hammer him
and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself

Ivan Vladislavic

#56. When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

James McAvoy

#57. Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

Beau Mirchoff

#58. Mary is an apple.
Whoever plucks her
Nails his heart
To the leafless tree.

Ted Hughes

#59. Hugh is now playing a game on his mobile phone. His greasy fat fingers with bitten down nails surprisingly agile on the keys. The concentration on his face is admirable in a way. It was probably with a similar level of concentration that the theory of relativity was formulated.

Glenn Haybittle

#60. How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my Nails can reach unto thine Eyes

William Shakespeare

#61. Jason closed his eye and winced. "Why is this weekend not ending?" "Because the universe hates you, and you agreed to marry a bloodsucking wannabe Real Housewife of New York, who would have used her nails as a way to kill you so we'd all end up on Dateline - crying.

Rachel Van Dyken

#62. In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.

Andrew Abrahams

#63. Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

Nick Cave

#64. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.

Lisa Whittle

#65. She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure.
"Oh, God."
"Nay, lass. Connor.

Julie Garwood

#66. If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

William Zinsser

#67. Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.

Gina Barreca

#68. Ever heard someone's voice and it sounded like nails on a chalkboard? I finally know what that feels like.

April Mae Monterrosa

#69. Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Charles Babbage

#70. Trimming your dogs nails is a traumatic event that requires three people, a beach towel, and a can of spray cheese.

Allie Brosh

#71. You smile, embarrassed to be a nice girl, and your nails are bare and your V-neck sweater is beige and it's impossible to know if you're wearing a bra but I don't think that you are.

Caroline Kepnes

#72. Daryl Dixon: [about Merle] Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer, he'd crap out nails.

The Walking Dead

#73. The old ideals are dead as nails
nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman
sort of ultimate marriage
and there isn't anything else.

D.H. Lawrence

#74. It's a big step, moving to a new city, especially a city as extreme as New York. It's not the same as London ... "
"I know," I nod. "You have to get your nails done.

Sophie Kinsella

#75. In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Warren Farrell

#76. If that guy had defended Pontius Pilate, he would have convinced the jury that he was simply assisting a young carpenter who wanted to buy some nails for a cross he was working on.

Jeffrey Archer

#77. There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Tom Clancy

#78. There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Gary Numan

#79. You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Ray Bradbury

#80. I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or when I'm writing it or when I'm making it, because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.

Quentin Tarantino

#81. That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.

Jerzy Kosinski

#82. She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia ... " She gulped for air. " ... take thee Alexander ... " She gulped again. " ... to be my awful wedded husband ...

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#83. He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Horace

#84. The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#85. When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

Brander Matthews

#86. I fucking exploded when you did that last night. Your body twisted into some fucked up position, your nails dug into my skin, and your entire body orgasmed. And blow jobs. Pfft, you're a dirty, bad girl, and I fucking love it." "I'm not a dirty, bad girl.

Jettie Woodruff

#87. Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

Eugene O'Neill

#88. The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

Virginia Postrel

#89. Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Alanis Morissette

#90. It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Trent Reznor

#91. But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

Anthony Burgess

#92. I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Meredith Vieira

#93. Four inch nails is more like it!

Courtney Love

#94. I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

Miranda Cosgrove

#95. I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.

Scarlett Johansson

#96. This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Matt LeBlanc

#97. I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

Bella Thorne

#98. Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed.

Fredrik Backman

#99. There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

Trent Reznor

#100. Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.

Magnus Flyte