Top 100 Quotes About Peg
#1. Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
Beryl Bainbridge
#2. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.
Sarah Vowell
#3. A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.
Richard Adams
#4. Peg and I are in the trenches of social media, not in a "war room" back at headquarters. We acquired our knowledge though experimentation and diligence, not pontification, sophistry, and conference attendance.
Guy Kawasaki
#5. The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.
Qiu Xiaolong
#6. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
Cressida Cowell
#7. Christianity is a knowledge and not a faith based religious belief system. One must have a peg on which to hang ones hat-of-faith.
R. Alan Woods
#8. I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
Alison Moyet
#9. Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
Maureen Johnson
#10. Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s).
Niall Ferguson
#11. O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For Peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.
W.B.Yeats
#13. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
Paul Collins
#14. Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda Ueland
#15. I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.
Jamie Bamber
#16. I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.
Wendy McClure
#17. The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.
Langston Hughes
#18. From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, and old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#20. You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio
#22. This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.
John Butler
#23. He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.
Jodi Picoult
#24. My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
Tom Heinsohn
#25. You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
Ray Liotta
#26. It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.
Andre Gide
#27. Horse: What do you think? Gotta go, church in a few
Me: Church?!?? Didn't peg you for a church kind of guy
Horse: What we call a club meeting. I try to stay away from collection plates
Me: Don't get holy water in your beer!
Joanna Wylde
#28. When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
Phil Everly
#29. Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
Lindi Ortega
#30. The next three days I was very busy. My table was placed in the front room of the new house. All my papers and books were arranged neatly. My clothes hung on a peg. The rest of the house was swept and cleaned.
R.K. Narayan
#31. I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
Jonah Hill
#32. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
Michael Parenti
#33. Don't I what?' said Peg. 'Love your old master too much - ' 'No, not a bit too much,' said Peg.
Charles Dickens
#34. The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.' 'Peg
Hannah Kent
#35. If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape.
Tamer Hassan
#36. Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.
J. Loren Norris
#37. The bigger worry for him is if Danish banks and pension funds lose faith in the peg and start to sell euro assets to hedge their currency risks. "It is more important for Danish authorities to convince people in Denmark that they keep the peg than foreign investors," he says.
Anonymous
#38. Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this
Joseph Heller
#39. Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
#40. You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Elbert Hubbard
#42. Payment processing: As seen, you now can fit a Square peg through a round hole and be a merchant. Education
Scott Stratten
#43. You're a killer.... I never did peg you for an ordinary field agent. The way you carry yourself, the apathy in your eyes -- dangerous people recognize these things in other dangerous people.
E.J. Fisch
#44. You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.
Cheryl Ladd
#45. I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.
Ann Friedman
#46. Put your feelings out there to the other person. Let time, the universe, and destiny run its course. Don't overstate your feelings to other person and don't force the square peg.
David Mezzapelle
#47. I tried to peg out soldierly,
no use!
One dies of war like any old disease.
Wilfred Owen
#48. Do not gossip with new coworkers, admit to any insecurities or concerns, complain to them, or solicit too much in the way of guidance (they will peg you as clueless), especially
Kate White
#49. I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.
Philippa Perry
#50. For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion.
Kathryn Perez
#51. The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.
Kevin Bleyer
#52. If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
Theodore Gordon
#53. Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.
George R R Martin
#54. Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
Sly Stone
#55. That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.
Mark Twain
#56. You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
Michael Parenti
#57. This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
Paul Giamatti
#58. Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.
Alan Brennert
#59. That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
Mick Ralphs
#60. I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!
W.B.Yeats
#61. You can extend the life of your most popular blog posts by turning them into SlideShare presentations. Peg
Guy Kawasaki
#62. Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope
#63. I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two.
Julia Mills
#64. Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.
Christy Clark
#65. I give Finn a wicked smile. "Don't you think a peg leg would be charming? Like a pirate? The first mate of the Calypso had one, didn't he?"
"It would add a certain rakish factor. Have you got a spare eye patch?"
"Be serious, you two. Gangrene is no laughing matter," Mrs. O'Hare scolds.
Jessica Spotswood
#66. History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives," said Frex, "and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can't attend to both arenas at once." "Our child may not have a small life.
Gregory Maguire
#67. We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
#68. I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
Katey Sagal
#69. You can't threaten an atheist with hell, Peg. It doesn't make any sense. It's like a hippie threatening to punch you in your aura.
Ali Almossawi
#70. I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.
Miranda Otto
#71. lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays
Edna O'Brien
#72. Look at this, Grace," Peg's e-mail said. "He's entrancing those people. I just realized. Taking them out of themselves. Ty is sort of like a medicine man. A shaman.
P.S. Have you called him?
Shelle Sumners
#73. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.
Robert Kurson
#74. Cylindrical peg into the round hole. It's not that hard. Actually, yes it was that hard, which is why I didn't want it deflating before he figured out what to do with it.
Zathyn Priest
#75. You could be knocked down a peg or two."
... "Baby, I'm so far up the latter there aren't any pegs under me to be knocked down.
"Wow," she said. "That's a new one."
"You loved it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#76. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.
Pearl Zhu
#77. Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents
we didn't rear them
and yet we do.
Peg Bracken
#78. hand. Mex turned and walked toward his study, leaving the door open. Vicente Vega followed. If Vega looked around at his home, Mex didn't know. He didn't care.
Peg Brantley
#79. As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
Peg Bracken
#80. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
#81. Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.
Peg Bracken
#82. His own finance system was simple: whatever he got, he spent.
Peg Herring
#83. Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
Peg Bracken
#84. When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.
Peg Bracken
#85. One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...
Peg Bracken
#86. Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
Peg Bracken
#87. This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
Peg Bracken
#88. Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
Peg Bracken
#89. A celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.
Peg Bracken
#90. It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.
Peg Sutherland
#91. Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.
Peg Bracken
#92. This minute is passing. And it will never come again. Never in all the world. When it is gone, it is gone. No power on earth could bring it back again. - Carson McCullers
Peg Kehret
#93. When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.
Peg Bracken
#94. Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
Peg Bracken
#95. On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
Peg Bracken
#96. There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.
Peg Bracken
#97. The most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
Peg Bracken
#98. In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.
Peg O'Connor
#99. We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A
Peg Dawson
#100. Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Peg Bracken
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