Quotes About Pins

#1. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

William Ellery Channing

#2. My organs are dead, my bones are cracked, my skin is a sieve, punctured by pins and needles of pain.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

#4. Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Madeleine Albright

#5. I bet he also didn't mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man who was wise enough to only annoy me once.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. They say that nameless things change constantly - that names fix them in place like pins.

Holly Black

#7. I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

Josh Ryan Evans

#8. Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,

Erik Larson

#9. I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

Yitzhak Rabin

#10. People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and ... It's not like that.

Dries Van Noten

#11. Well," she repeated, "be it all right with you if Mr. Death pins her to the wall?"
Devyl hesitated as several scenarios for those words went through his mind. William having his way with the beast in a corner.
Or Will literally daggering the hag.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

Donald Trump Jr.

#13. I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Roger Moore

#14. In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

#15. I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun.

Christa Miller

#16. I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"

Jim Gaffigan

#17. I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

Joan Collins

#18. Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#19. What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler

#20. Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

#21. I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

Bernard Tschumi

#22. My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

Anne Taintor

#23. The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Greg Ginn

#24. He gets a little hot sometimes, but that's fine. It shows he wants to win ... he fires at pins. I'd rather have someone miss some cuts who's shooting at pins and playing aggressively.

Ryan Kuehl

#25. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

Samuel Beckett

#26. If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Frances Hardinge

#27. When you work behind the ropes, you know the heartbreaking stories behind their smiles; you see the pins and nauseating amount of hair products that glaze their heads; and you see the wedges (even flats) under their eternally beaded gowns.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#28. Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

#29. And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#30. But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.

Tim Burton

#31. When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

L.M. Montgomery

#32. What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

Catherine Anderson

#33. A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion.

Kelly Barnhill

#34. Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Carter Dickson

#35. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head -
it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins.
A host of fallen angels perches on each tip,
waiting to be counted.

Wislawa Szymborska

#36. My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

Nicola Formichetti

#37. Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.

John Kremer

#38. The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

Michael Ian Black

#39. I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.

Matt Kuchar

#40. That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins.

David Letterman

#41. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

#42. I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

Madeleine Albright

#43. . "Fancy a midnight swim?"
"In this?" I gesture at my fancy-pants dress.
Hauling me in to his naked chest, he pins me with a wolfish grin. "Without it was more what I had in mind.

Siobhan Davis

#44. Do you have anything to pick a lock?" She asked desperately.
"Always." I slid one of the three bobby-pins I always kept with me off of my waistband, tossing it to her.

Embee

#45. In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.

Rosamund Hodge

#46. When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

Zoe Kravitz

#47. The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

Marie Helvin

#48. Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Spencer

#49. I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

Wislawa Szymborska

#50. Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.

Preneet Kaur

#51. The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen,

Dean Koontz

#52. There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

Brit Hume

#53. I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm!

William Blake

#54. My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.

Lilith Saintcrow

#55. I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun.

Tori Kelly

#56. She hasn't forgotten that I once called that thing she does, with the pins, Pinteresque.

Olivia Sudjic

#57. When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Neil Young

#58. Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Louisa May Alcott

#59. People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Aldous Huxley

#60. Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

Joan Didion

#61. ammunition boxes. They were both packed tight with cartridges standing on their firing pins, points upward.

Lee Child

#62. I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man ... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

Madeleine Albright

#63. Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Mike Leigh

#64. We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

Tina Weymouth

#65. Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.

Megan Abbott

#66. Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Louise Erdrich

#67. The rich rock-star Lothario bullshit drops with a thud, and an air of truth fills the empty space between us. He pins me with those gorgeous emerald eyes. "I dig you, Letty.

Kendall Grey

#68. How would you react if I dug my hand into your hair, dislodging those carefully placed pins, then tugged hard, forcing your head back and holding you tight for my kiss?

Sierra Cartwright

#69. The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

Emma Stone

#70. Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze of smoke, chin propped on her hand, pins and needles spreading up through her arm as she read her way through Richardson's Clarissa.

Ian McEwan

#71. When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing ... but you have to use bobby pins.

Sherri Shepherd

#72. Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

John Buchanan Robinson

#73. Did you hear about what happened at the Laundromat last night? Three clothes-pins held

Various

#74. People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone's eyes out.

Yuri Herrera

#75. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

#76. Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Norman Mailer

#77. We are not as the World sees us;
We are the Beloved of the Lord.
We are not as the Schedule pins us;
We are Immortal, Wing'd Creatures.

--St. Jabsha of Byzantium

Kate Betterton

#78. His onyx eyes are piercing, commanding pools of promise, and every time he pins me with that powerful gaze, I hear his unspoken oath that he won't quit until he has what he wants - me.

Suzanne Steele

#79. Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Mark Lawrence

#80. There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

Jeff Bridges

#81. One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ...

Israel Zangwill

#83. I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

Tyra Banks

#84. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

#85. 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

Patrick Stump

#86. Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.

Nicole Richie

#87. The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#88. He was held together by cotter pins, hose clamps, nuts, bolts, and magnets. Salo's tangerine-colored skin, which was so expressive when he was emotionally disturbed, could be put on or taken off like an Earthling wind-breaker. A magnetic zipper held it shut.

Kurt Vonnegut

#89. Ren's conquests fell into two categories: those girls who still pined for him and those who stuck pins into his voodoo likeness every night.

Andrea Cremer

#90. The secret to life is to be a balloon
And fly.
Fly very high
Out of the range of needles and pins
Out of the range of BB guns rifles
FLY
Fly very very high, my Friends
And never stop soaring

Jose N. Harris

#91. I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins)
I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in)
I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

Alice Cooper

#92. Ou always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.

Rosamund Hodge

#93. You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.

Lauren Beukes

#94. President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

Paula Poundstone

#95. He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#96. He extended his fingers and felt them tingle, like they were waking up - pins and needles. Then flames flickered to life, curls of red-hot fire dancing across his palm.

Rick Riordan

#97. Dream sweet, Lilly flower," his words are like tiny pins pricking all over my skin.

Amie Nichols

#98. You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

Jon Cryer

#99. I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

Mitch Hedberg

#100. I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

Eliza Dushku