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Quotes About Nails

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
~ Adrienne Bailon
My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth.
~ Tommy Cooper
toenails clicking
~ Lisa Scottoline
She examined her fingernails and said, "It's almost time for me to paint my nails again." Before she left, she told the six remaining members of Group D that she still expected seven holes.
~ Louis Sachar
And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to entertain some doubts. The approach was not such as to prepossess people—an ill-smelling, dark passage, a staircase half-lighted by bars through which stole a glimmer from a neighboring yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.
~ Alexandre Dumas
This wide wide Heaven is about flathead nails and the soft down of new leaves, wide roller coaster rides and escaped marbles that fall then hang then take you somewhere you could never have imagined in your small-heaven dreams.
~ Alice Sebold
My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of their ironwork: the nails flew to the mountain, and the unhappy crew perished amidst the disjointed planks.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He says, "This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed." He listens to her breathe. "So I said, 'Oh, we can make our own bed.' And he said, 'Right, I'll get you some nails and wood.'" Marie-Laure still does not smile.
~ Anthony Doerr
Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
The only thing I admit I can't do with my long nails done is trying to get my card out of the ATM.
~ Rosalia
It's funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows - or it could be anything like hair or nails - when you're rapping about a specific thing, you can have more punchlines about it.
~ Doja Cat
They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.
~ Ronald Cunningham
The fascination Fred and George show at Harry's scar corresponds to the need of that other twin, Thomas, to see 'the mark of the nails.
~ Luke Bell
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
~ Habeeb Akande
Here in the city she had gilded her nails. They shone. And she had put on a velvet dress, this soft red one, which was heavy. The buttons were in the form of seashells.
~ Saul Bellow
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
~ Salvador Dali
I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?
~ Elaine Dundy
As your newly crowned queen of Earth, it is my first royal decree that flats are sexy and nails are optional.
~ Alaska
I can pretty much make a joke out of any situation, I'm quick on my feet and I love to laugh. I am the biggest girly girl. I love to get dressed up, go shopping, and getting my nails done.
~ Lizzie Velasquez
I see really long nails as a form of extreme, radical femininity. They make me feel strong.
~ Rosalia
Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague," but we did our nails anyway.
~ Margaret Atwood
Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague
~ Margaret Atwood
She stands and quaffs her drink as well, and lays down the horn. She places one hand on his shoulder and one on mine. Her nails graze my neck. A shiver follows.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'm a bit of a bed head: I'm always running around with no make-up on and my hair in a mess, but my nails are one thing I do love to keep looking nice, so it's rare to see me without it.
~ Poppy Delevingne