quotes about Pins
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
-- Agnes RepplierSource : Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
-- Al Sharpton -
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
-- Aldous Huxley -
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
-- Angela Carter -
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
-- Brandon Boyd -
Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.
-- Chris Howard -
If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon
-- Christopher Paolini -
Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
-- Gail Porter -
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
-- George D. Prentice -
They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
-- Holly Black -
I’m a bowling pin, even when I fall I’ll always stand back up.
-- Jay Park -
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We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
-- Jayne Mansfield -
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-SennSource : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.
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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
-- John Buchanan Robinson -
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I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.
-- Josh Ryan Evans -
I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
-- Madeleine Albright -
Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
-- Mark LawrenceSource : Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.66, Penguin
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It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
-- Maureen DowdSource : Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin
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The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
-- Samuel PepysSource : Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341
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It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.
-- Sid WaddellSource : "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.
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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 -
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We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
-- Tina WeymouthSource : "Coming at rock from odd angles" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.
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Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
-- Vladimir Putin -
I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.
-- Jonathan TrigellSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.
-- Brett Weston -