Pins Quotes - Page 11

• Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

  Gina Berriault

  Essence, Trying, Stories

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• I’m a bowling pin, even when I fall I’ll always stand back up.

  Jay Park

  Fall, Bowling

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish, Party, Divorce

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• Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

  Confucius

  Thoughtful, Pinterest, Social Media

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• He gets a little hot sometimes, but that's fine. It shows he wants to win...he fires at pins. I'd rather have someone miss some cuts who's shooting at pins and playing aggressively.

  Ryan Kuehl

  Cutting, Winning, Fire

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• Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Independence

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• Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Support, Way

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• It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

  Michelle Kwan

  Winning, Titles, Would Be

  "Graceful Kwan still seeking gold" by Bob Phillips, www.espn.com.

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• It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

  Boris Johnson

  Wall, Trying, Piglet

  "The BBC was doing its job – bring back Gilligan". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 30, 2004.

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• I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

  Ross Macdonald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf

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• Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

  Brandon Boyd

  Insecurity, Trying, Grenade

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• It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

  Michael Shermer

  Moving, Angel, Animal

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.141, Macmillan

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• It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

  Maureen Dowd

  Men, Sin, Worst

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin

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• In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, People, Suits

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.343, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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• A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Imagination, World

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• He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

  Samuel Pepys

  Pounds, Classroom, Stoops

  Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341

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• But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Feet, Missing, Balls

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• There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

  Mira Sorvino

  Girl, America, Personality

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

  Anne Taintor

  Hands, Firsts, Gone

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• That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Earth, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Gun, Voice

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