Tinny Quotes

#1. He spoke in one of the American accents; Lydia couldn't distinguish among them. To her they all sounded dry and tinny. Almost quack-like.

Gregory Maguire

#2. There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway

#3. Aunt Tinny's man, never married, married man

Vievee Francis

#4. Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Eric Liu

#5. It closed with a muffled thump that whispered money into the silent interior. The sound of my car door closing was vaguely reminiscent of a nickel hitting the bottom of a tuna can - cheap and tinny.

M. Leighton

#6. The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

Arundhati Roy

#8. When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Tony Bennett

#9. It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is ... Soon as the house lights go down and the band starts up, I could cry.

Frank D. Gilroy

#10. Fabulous Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.

Kiersten White

#11. And floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real.

Sarah Waters

#13. What does she look like?" he asked again, his voice taking on a tinny phonograph quality as his sister consumed my attention.
"A candle flame that can't decide if it has the strength to keep burning.

Cat Winters

#14. The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

George Will

#15. My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Zaha Hadid

#16. Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Plato

#17. My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

Warren Buffett

#18. The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

Ronald Gross

#19. I don't feel old or young, I just am

Paul Weller

#20. My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.

Kelvin Yu

#21. Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.

Jon Oringer

#22. Having to accept hominoids as real will require having to acknowledge that the prehuman fossil record is comprised entirely of their bones, rather than ours.

Lloyd Pye

#23. If you can see a cop in your rear view mirror - no matter how far back the cop is - TURN! The sooner you turn the better. Your goal while driving should be to never let a law enforcement officer into a position where he can pull you over. Don't even let them come close enough to read your tag.

Ian Tinny