Tin Quotes - Page 6

• My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

  Sharon Stone

  Dark, Chocolate, Weakness

  "Sharon Stone's Beauty Secrets" by Alexandra Parnass, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Rain, Thinking, Hands

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

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• To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Stars, Children, Party

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Needs

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

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• A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

  Chelsea Clinton

  World, Prosperity, Roof

  "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

  George Clinton

  School, Circles, Tin Pan Alley

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• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  Gary Ackerman

  Hands, Luxury, People

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• The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

  Mary Antin

  Father, Tin Cans, Cooking

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

  Glenn Hoddle

  Player, Feelings, May

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

  Ada Leverson

  Depressing, Real, Men

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

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• Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

  Shirley Temple

  People, Rudolph, Valentino

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• The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

  Georg Brandes

  War, Soldier, Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Stones, Building

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.165

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• [In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Simple, Museums, Egypt

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Yellow, Wife

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• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Fundamentals

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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• For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

  David Bowie

  Travel, Thinking, Past

  Song: Space Oddity

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• The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

  James Carlos Blake

  Morning, Stars, Distance

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• Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

  Neil Young

  Summer, Ohio, Soldier

  "Ohio" (song) (1970)

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Summer, Flower

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