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Quotes About Nails

Could I come near your beauty with my nailsI'd set my ten commandments in your face.
~ William Shakespeare
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
~ Caroline Corr
I am personally am a fan of buff nails - not so much of clear polish, but a great buff nail is amazing.
~ Adrienne Bailon
When I use a polish, I end up changing my nail color 2.5 times a week. The '.5' is when I get them done and notice it's not perfect - I'll fix it myself.
~ Eva Chen
I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.
~ Jessica Lowndes
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
~ Adrienne Bailon
Ay! Es un perro y va a morir! Le sacaré los ojos con las uñas! Lo mataré! Voy a—
~ Richard S. Prather
Claws grow at different rates depending on the kitten. Once every week or every other week is a good schedule. A good time to trim kitten nails is when she is relaxed, and cuddled for a nap on your lap. It's a great idea to get Kitty used to having her paws handled, so she won't be startled when you need to trim her nails. Pet her paws, and handle them gently, several times a week—not just when you plan to snip claws.
~ Amy Shojai
Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.
~ Lindsey Stirling
Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.
~ Jill Soloway
The preparations for my very first exhibition in 1984 consisted of banging a line of nails in roughly the right place and hanging plates on them. I don't think a tape measure or a spirit level was involved and the whole process took less time than the session in the pub afterwards.
~ Grayson Perry
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
~ Robert Brault
I don't like plain nails. I get sad.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
~ Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
Love is not a businessman who wants to see a return on his investments. And imagination needs only a few nails on which to hang its veil. Whether they are of gold, tin, or covered with rust makes no difference to it. Wherever it gets caught, it is caught. Thornbush or rosebush, as soon as the veil of moonlight and mother-of-pearl has fallen on it, either becomes a fairy tale out of A Thousand and One Nights
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
~ Camille Guaty
My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.
~ Liz Phair
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.
~ Gillian Flynn
There are widely cited accounts of famous but unnamed Soviet boot and nail factories. The boot factories produced only size-7-left boots but never missed a production quota; the nail factories made a large number of small nails in response to numerical targets but switched skillfully to a small number of very large nails when targets were set by weight.
~ Robert D. Austin
We've got girls like that in Boston, he said. Fake as her nails.
~ Lee Nichols
Rousseau (I'll note with your permission) Could not conceive how solemn Grimm Dared clean his nails in front of him, The madcap sage and rhetorician. Champion of rights and liberty, In this case judged wrong-headedly. One still can be a man of action And mind the beauty of one's nails: Why fight the age's predilection? Custom's a despot and prevails.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Women, far more than men, deceive the opposite sex by alterations to their appearance such as wearing make-up, painting their nails, getting fake tans, and wearing tight clothing.
~ Anne Campbell
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find-- blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
~ Anne Enright
The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
~ Anne Sexton