Tin Quotes - Page 2

• Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

  Alvin Martin

  Football, Cat, Hot

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• Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Brother, Real

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Hair

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• When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

  Drake

  Life, Relationship, Break Up

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• In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.

  Al Kooper

  New York, Believe, Cities

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

  David Ross Locke

  Dog, Politics, Bricks

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• My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

  Dolly Parton

  Tin Cans, Two, Phones

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Tin Cans, Civilization, Path

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

  Bruce Fogle

  Dog, Cat, Hot

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• But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Lines, Conviction

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• ...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

  Cesar Chavez

  Organization, Office, Trying

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• The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin', so I went out and got drunk in this bar.' That's the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, 'Oh I missed you darling, so I went to this restaurant and I sat down and had a dinner for one.' That's cleaned up now, you see? But country and blues tells it like it is.

  Ray Charles

  Country, Song, Tin Pan Alley

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• I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

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• I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

  Margo Martindale

  Cat, Years, Hot

  "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Spring, Valentine

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• Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Men, Thinking, Taste

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• Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

  Mason Cooley

  Poverty, World, T Shirt

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• The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Laughing, Use

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• The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.

  Robert Benchley

  Smart, People, Smoking

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
  it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
  My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
  My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
  My other cries and cries and cries
  when I put on a cocktail dress.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, Heart, Kissing

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

  Billy Wilder

  Morning, Rain, Writing

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• Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

  Karen Russell

  Voice, People, House

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tin Cans, Tails, Denial

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Divorce

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• I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

  Margaret Walker

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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