Stick Pins Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. 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

#5. I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.

Joseph Altuzarra

#6. In an age which has embraced every novelty, the true rebel is the traditionalist.

Kevin Clark

#7. No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Neal Shusterman

#8. Nature or nurture? A talent needs both.

Fennel Hudson

#9. It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Bela Lugosi

#10. Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Paul Cezanne

#11. But you, Lynet, you deserve something better." Lynet leaned forward, looking into Gaheris's eyes. "I've found something better," she murmured, and then she kissed him.

Gerald Morris

#12. There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

Sir John Richard Hicks

#13. When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.

Geraldine Brooks