Quotes About Tacks

#1. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage

#2. Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot

#3. Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

Helen DeWitt

#4. He'll keep changing tacks, Marcia had said. It's the way he puts people on the defensive. Pretty soon he'll have you hitting out at where you think he's going to be, and he'll get you someplace else.

Stephen King

#5. Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

Bill Bowerman

#6. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Theodore Levitt

#8. 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

#9. Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.

Billy Connolly

#10. My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

Rodney Dangerfield

#11. A box of tacks - might actually be something less obvious: a box and tacks.

Anonymous

#12. You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#13. used one end to loosen the tacks,

A.W. Exley

#14. Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory,

James Lee Burke

#15. Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.

Beverly Cleary

#16. I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Joe Perry

#17. we learn from failure not succes

Audry Grant

#18. Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Gautama Buddha

#19. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Jane Austen

#20. I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

Jessica Chastain

#21. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).

Tony Dungy

#22. I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

Yitzhak Rabin

#23. If you pray to the wrong god, you might just make the right one madder and madder.

Homer Simpson

#24. I don't always change my clothes just because I'm leaving the house. I wear yoga pants 99 percent of the time, and I pretend that other people don't notice that I'm wearing my pajamas in public.

Shauna Niequist

#25. Violence or Peace ... it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down.
The choice is completely ours!

Timothy Pina

#26. I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

Rick Wright

#27. She nodded again, and took a deep breath. A small tear managed to find its way through the swelling and dropped onto her left cheek. He

John Grisham

#28. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Walt Disney

#29. Perhaps the best antidote and preventive for burnout is the feeling of solid connection with the people in our lives. When we can share our frustrations with family and friends, our burden is eased and we can get new perspectives.

Richard O'Connor

#30. The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.

Jennifer Lawrence

#31. On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

Lionel Blue