Nails Quotes

• Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Failure, House

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 25, 2017

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• The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

  William Maxwell

  Circumstances, Magnet

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Victim, Righteous

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• Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

  Caroline Corr

  Polish, Nail Polish

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

  Marian Keyes

  Choices, Different, Done

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thinking, Hammers, Social Psychology

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• To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Mark Twain

  Hammers, Looks

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Overcoming, Habit

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• Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Painting

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Fake People, Would Be, Stumps

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• 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

  Jobs, Pride, Done

  "The agony of adult nail biters" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 2003.

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• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Kwanzaa, Purpose And Direction

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  Frances Farmer

  Lying, Dark, Night

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

  Tom Peters

  Two, People, Supportive

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• If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Bernard Baruch

  Political, Hammers, Looks

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Literature, Pithy

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girl, Beer, Guy

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  Iggy Pop

  Sound, Offensive, Blackboard

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  Oliver Reed

  Thinking, Bangs, Needs

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• Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

  Charles Babbage

  Shoes, Boots, Kind

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.6

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• There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

  Tom Clancy

  Technology, People, Tools

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Hit the nail on the head.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Latin

  John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blow, Done, May

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