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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Rip, Safety Pins, Looks

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

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• If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

  Frances Hardinge

  Men, Would Be, Hedgehogs

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mad, Done, Paper

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• You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

  Eloisa James

  Beautiful, Sheep, Hair

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• By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories, Facts, Helping

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Voice

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• In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

  Jerry Spinelli

  Butterfly, Mind, Cactus

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Liars, Humor

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• I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

  John Nettles

  People, Creative, Hats

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

  John Newton

  Art, Hands, Giving

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• But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

  William Ellery Channing

  Lying, Teaching, Learning

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.12

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• I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

  Rufus Jones

  Circles, Events, Quiet

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• Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Heart, Winning

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