Tin Quotes

• What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Dog, Names

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• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Determined

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• After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

  George Harrison

  Swings, Pieces, Selling

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• You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspiration, Mean, Iron

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.381, Bantam

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• They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

  David Gemmell

  Horse, Real, Gold

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Life, Moving Forward

  1960 Beyond the Fringe.

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Long, Victory

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Roof

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Half, Time Goes By, Outrun

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.161, New Directions Publishing

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• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Tin Cans, Tails, News

  April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

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• When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

  Kevin Costner

  Inspirational, Defining Moments, Sports Movie

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• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Baby, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Hero, Tired

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Feet, Cradle

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• He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Morning, Heart, Gun

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

  Dr. Seuss

  Space, Coats, Thanks

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Kissing, First Love

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Holiday, Car, Dying

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

  David Byrne

  House, Ridicule, Shed

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• You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

  Grimes

  Rocks, Done, Influence

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• I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

  Dennis Quaid

  Regret, Golf, Roles

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• Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Book, Smell

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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