Pins Quotes

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

  Joan Didion

  Angel, Mind, Analysis

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.74, Zola Books

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• People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Religion, Solemn

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• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Self Esteem, Pride, Achievement

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Business, Believe, Men

  "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.

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• Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

  Henri Bergson

  Doubt, Atheism, Reason

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• When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

  Mitt Romney

  Tails, Blame, Donkey

  "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Bullying, Children, Years

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• I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Travel, Fall

  "Making Maps, Second Edition" by John Krygier, Denis Wood, The Guilford Press, (p. 58), 2011.

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• Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

  Kassia

  Naked, Sin, Wealth

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• The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Tilt, Stones

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford

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• People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

  Corey Feldman

  Yesterday, People, News

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• 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

  Safety Pins, Stylist, Uniforms

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• Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

  Al Franken

  Apples, Iphone, Smartphones

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• The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

  David Icke

  Girl, Sports, Queens

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Writing, Artist

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• The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Numbers, People, Perfect

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• I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

  Joan Collins

  Winter, Dark, Thinking

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• From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

  Joan Collins

  Girl, Years, Boring

  "The actor" by Cath Rapley, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2009.

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• There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

  Roger Moore

  Good Luck, People, Comfort

  "From his first job on the milkround to life as a Monaco millionaire: the late Sir Roger Moore on the subject of money". Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 24, 2017.

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• 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

  Iphone, Laptops, Folks

  "Dan Aykroyd: Ghostbusters 3 Should Film By Next Year". Interview with Dan Milano, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Tools, Said, Diplomacy

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• I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

  Cindy Margolis

  Numbers, America, Done

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