Tin Men Quotes

#1. She watches the people through the sooted panes. They walk slower than they do when she reports to work and when she leaves work, and differently still from weekend strolling. They are the tin men and rag dolls who wake after hours in the toy store.

Colson Whitehead

#2. Your knight in shining aroumor may just be an idiot in tin-foil.

Alexis M. Smith

#3. Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Robert Farrar Capon

#5. He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.

James O'Barr

#6. I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

Marcel Dzama

#7. 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