Top 45 Tin Can Quotes
#1. Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
Lee Wulff
#2. For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
David Bowie
#3. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.
Mike Ditka
#4. For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl
About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball
Shane MacGowan
#5. You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
Josephine Tey
#6. We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.
Karen Russell
#7. Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket,
sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street.
Thomas Pynchon
#8. For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do ... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
David Bowie
#9. One life form's gold is another life form's tin can.
Matt Haig
#10. To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T.E. Lawrence
#11. No. No, it was a lonely writer I met one stormy day in Laguna Beach. He had a poem about Thelonious Monk that he sealed in a tin can and labeled Campbell's Cream of Piano Soup. Later I hear he killed himself to avoid the draft.
Tom Robbins
#12. What if I take you apart and turn you into a toaster oven, how would you like that tin can?
Julie Kagawa
#13. Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.
Markus Zusak
#14. What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ...
Tennessee Williams
#15. Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth ... !
D.H. Lawrence
#16. You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
George R R Martin
#17. The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.
Robert Benchley
#18. I sank my head onto my knees. I was glad of the darkness. I closed the tin lid and pressed it tight. I promised myself I would never open it again. Never. I would never taste it. I would never even try. I was glad of the darkness, because in the darkness, no one can see you cry.
Gill Lewis
#19. We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
Ethel Waters
#20. She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
Sharon Olds
#21. I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin.
Jilly Cooper
#22. For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#23. Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. I love like I'm thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#26. I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
Imelda May
#27. Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
Neil Young
#28. She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#29. Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.
George R R Martin
#30. You sure you can do this?" he asked.
"Does the Tin Man have a sheet-metal dick?
Julie Ann Walker
#31. All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#32. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum
#33. In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
Terry Pratchett
#34. You can't be like me But be happy that you can't I see pain but I don't feel it I am like the old Tin Man. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, TIN MAN
Colleen Hoover
#35. Because it's easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out." Makes sense. If you're the Tin Man. "You think you can actually control whether or not you fall in love with someone?
Colleen Hoover
#36. I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.
Gunter Grass
#37. I can speak for myself and say that a lot of times you just make mistakes! You're under pressure to get something done in a limited amount of time, and so you just dive in without really knowing what you're getting yourself into.
Christopher Tin
#38. She hoped Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there were wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to manageable size.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#39. Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett
#40. Suppose we try kindness," suggested the Tin Woodman. "I've heard that anyone can be conquered with kindness, no matter how ugly they may be." At
L. Frank Baum
#41. I make love like farm equipment - not to farm equipment. There is a difference, though my cousin can't tell it.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#42. You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male ...
Caroline Rhea
#43. You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.
Al Murray
#44. I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
Christopher Tin
#45. Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.
Amor Towles
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