Pins Quotes - Page 5

• All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.

  Ryan Lochte

  Alarms, Release, Situation

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Air, Stories

  Interview With Jenny Shank, www.patheos.com. March 6, 2017.

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• You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Wall, Sky

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• Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right with too much alone time. There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Fall, People, Extroverts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Years, Creating, World

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mirrors, Dust, Circles

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• But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Feelings, Pits

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, Going Away, Pay

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• Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Ideas, Steps, Sitting

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• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  Olivia Colman

  Beautiful, Sexy, Husband

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• A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Girl, Mean, Perspective

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• [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

  Israel Zangwill

  Book, Soul, Censorship

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Eye, Politics, Conversation

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• The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, History, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library

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• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Creativity, Careers

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Eye, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

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• What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Heaven, Needs, Redemption

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• The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Running, Memories, Years

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• I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

  Joan Allen

  Different, Looks, Film

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

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• Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Cities, Sound

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Picks

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 24, 2016

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• ….he grabs my wrists and pins my arms up above my head, locking them in one hand. "Are you mine?" he asks gruffly, as his hand returns between my thighs and briefly enters me. I gasp. Undone. Delirious. "I'm yours." His expression is tense, ravenous, so hot as he scrapes his finger deep into my channel. "Do you want me inside you?" My need clogs my windpipe as pleasure shoots down my legs. "I want you everywhere. All over me. Inside me.

  Katy Evans

  Expression, Hands, Legs

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