Tinny's Quotes

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

Vievee Francis

#2. I love it when people want to interpret my books.

China Mieville

#3. The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera

#4. 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

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

George Galloway

#6. It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

Robert Goolrick

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Jasper Fforde

#14. You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#15. It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

Anita Diamant

#16. Good grief, this guy had a sleeping rug on his chest.

S.M. Reine

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Hannah Arendt

#20. 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

#21. Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that's even worse

Lisa See

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

Mason Cooley

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

Zaha Hadid

#27. They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living.

Stephen King