Safety Pins Quotes:

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Jobs, Silly, Safety Pins, Decor, Alterations

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Safety Pins, Clothes, Tears

Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

- Dan Brown

source: Dan Brown (2007). “Digital Fortress: A Thriller”, p.251, Macmillan

topic: Rip, Safety Pins, Looks, Runts

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

- John Updike

topic: Night, Safety Pins, Pirate, Goblin, Paper Bags

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.249, Open Road Media

topic: Sarcastic, Safety Pins, Used

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Stars, Twilight, Down And, Memorial Stone, Safety Pins

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

- Donatella Versace

topic: Safety, Soul, Rebellion, Safety Pins

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Writing, Safety, Broken, Tinkering, Rubber Bands

Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

- Tom Waits

topic: Reading, Math, Reality, Following Orders, Safety Pins

I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

- John Ashbery

source: "John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33". Interview with Peter A. Stitt for The Paris Review, Issue 90, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1983.

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Hair, Safety Pins

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

- Greg Ginn

topic: Fashion, Sex, Media, Sex Pistols, Good Bands

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

- Tina Weymouth

source: "Coming at rock from odd angles" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

topic: Clothes, Safety, Pins, Safety Pins

The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

- Michael Ian Black

topic: Crazy, Rocks, Ideas, Punk Rock, Mohawks

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

- Patrick Stump

topic: Mean, Safety, Mohawks, Safety Pins

I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

- Eliza Dushku

topic: Jeans, Safety, Clerks, Safety Pins

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

- Billy Bragg

topic: Safety, Pairs, Punk, Sneer, Safety Pins

Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Nature, Self, Elephants, Coastline, Oil Companies

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Fashion, Rip, Safety, Motifs, Safety Pins

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

- Nicola Formichetti

topic: Safety, Stylist, Uniforms, Safety Pins