Quotes and Sayings About Nails
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
-- Adrienne Bailon -
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
-- Aleister Crowley -
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
-- Anderson Cooper -
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
-- Andrea Arnold -
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
-- Andrew Bird -
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.
-- Andy Townsend -
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
-- Anne Enright -
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...
-- Antonin Artaud -
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
-- Arjun Rampal -
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...
-- Astley Cooper -
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.
-- Ayn Rand -
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
-- Barack Obama -
Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
-- Beau Mirchoff -
I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.
-- Bella Thorne -
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
-- Bill Hybels -
... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
-- Billy Graham -
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
-- Bob Dylan -
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
-- Bob Seger -
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
-- Brion Gysin -
I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails!... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.
-- Britney Spears -
If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
-- Bruce Oldfield