Quotes About Pegs

#1. Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.

Girdhar Joshi

#2. 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

#3. Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

P.T. Barnum

#4. Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.

Frances Mayes

#5. Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently ... Rock on!

Steve Jobs

#6. Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Aldous Huxley

#7. It's Square Pegs," Georgie said, "plus My So-Called Life, plus Arrested Development." If Seth were here, he'd add, "Plus some show that people actually watched." And

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor.

Meghan Daum

#9. And we, too, had a relationship
Tight wires between us,
Pegs too deep to uproot, and a mind like a ring
Sliding shut on some quick thing,
The constriction killing me also.

Sylvia Plath

#10. You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. I no longer went to church as a regular habit, but go I sometimes did, for one Sunday morning I saw these words painted on a board in the porch: 'The congregation are requested to kneel during prayers; the kneelers are afterwards to be hung upon pegs provided for the purpose.

W.B.Yeats

#12. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

J.R. Ward

#13. All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Steve Yegge

#16. There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

Anne Beatts

#17. The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda ... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

Paul Haggis

#18. That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,

Khushwant Singh

#19. Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Robert Breault

#20. Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Bernard Cornwell

#22. This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

Keith Miller

#23. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Benjamin Hoff

#24. Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Ronnie Hawkins

#25. The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

Langston Hughes

#26. We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.

Manoj Arora

#27. 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

#28. She saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

Lewis Carroll

#29. My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Carl Sandburg

#30. Deborah Tedone, Director of Square Pegs/Asperger's Support Group for Adults in Rochester, NY. Deborah says so eloquently what all parents of AS girls need to hear.

Rudy Simone

#31. (aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.

William Shakespeare