Tin Quotes - Page 2

• Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

  Kami Garcia

  Book, Coffins, Filthy

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• Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Running, Two, Soldier

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• I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Home, Fire

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.118, Penguin

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• It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Sound, Half

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.188, Random House

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• I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

  "Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long Ago, Sea, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fall, Afternoon, Sheets

  P. G. Wodehouse (1992). “Mr. Mulliner Speaking”, Random House (UK)

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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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• 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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• The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Black, Lines, Favors

  www.forbes.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

  Al Gore

  Mold, Tin Tin

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Eggs, Meals

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

  Sean Connery

  Scotland, Fantasy

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

  David Byrne

  House, Ridicule, Shed

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• I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

  Janice Galloway

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Men, Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

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• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Brain, World

  L. Frank Baum (2014). “The Wonderful Stories Of Oz: All 14 Books”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Loneliness, Heart, Wicked

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• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

  Emily Bronte

  Differences, Quality, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.522, Penguin

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• Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

  David Attenborough

  Sweat, Hell, Bangkok

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