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Quotes About Nails

When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn't get a lot of money.
~ Amanda Lepore
It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. As for Zephine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing little way of saying Yes, sir.
~ Victor Hugo
everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.
~ Clive Barker
Liquid fire was the very blood of the earth. It was his mission to upset, mash, and draw out the metal into the useful things that made society operate: nails, horseshoes, plows, knives, guns. Chains. Working the spirit, he called it.
~ Colson Whitehead
It was one of those moments when everything is out of balance, I suppose, and just watching an odd thing seems to make sense. The squirrel scampered up a tree trunk, the sound of its nails like water in a tub.
~ Colum McCann
Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi.)
~ Charles de Leusse
That was where friendships were smelted from unrefined ore into pure metal: two girls staying up past their bedtime, painting one another's nails, trying on one another's clothes, wondering about ghosts, confiding secrets, swapping tokens of undying affection, hours of whispering in the darkness.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
And as I methodically trimmed the overgrown nails, wrathful bubbles escaped on either side of the bandage along with his splutterings. If dogs could swear I was getting the biggest cursing in history. I
~ James Herriot
Jesus Christ walks into a hotel... He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks... Can you put me up for the night
~ James O'Barr
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
~ Evelyn Lauder
I thought, Hell, that's pretty quick for a woman with Lee press-on nails.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nice work," I said, alluding to her nails. "Maura, at The Hair Palace, does them. She's a genius with nails, and she'll bikini wax you till you're bald as a billiard ball.
~ Janet Evanovich
Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.
~ Gia Coppola
If you're the new messiah, I'm going to be the one to drive in the nails
~ Pat Mills
ignored the expensive dress and affected mandarin nails in favor of the personality which blazed like a beacon
~ Dan Simmons
And so if Cash nails the box up, she is not a rabbit.
~ William Faulkner
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
~ China Mieville
I have always loved the history of Los Angeles and Twilight in the City of Angels nails it. --Danny Trejo, actor
~ chris ahrens
French pedicures make your toes look like fingers. You look grabby. French pedicures are for man thieves.
~ Helen Ellis
I use a nude color on my nails all the time!
~ Vittoria Ceretti
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
~ Anne Enright
I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It's actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It's a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.
~ Eva Chen