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Quotes About Pins

La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante
~ Jonathan Swift
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.
~ Tyra Banks
Pretty much my whole career, I have been aggressive. I have always been a guy that goes at pins. That's kind of the way I've been all my career, and I don't know, really, if I can change.
~ John Daly
bobby pins in it. On the wall
~ Richard Ford
Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?" asked the Tin Woodman. "That is proof that he is sharp," remarked the Lion.
~ L. Frank Baum
Falkner sometimes thought her heart was a voodoo doll, full of pins. One each for Ben and the girls. One for each member of the team. She felt the new pin slide in and hoped for the best.
~ Emma Bull
I've seen so much stuff that I had to purge 90 percent of my childhood memories from my brain in order to make room for passwords and PINs.
~ Laurie Notaro
I've seen more than half a century of events. I've seen so much stuff that I had to purge 90 percent of my childhood memories from my brain in order to make room for passwords and PINs.
~ Laurie Notaro
had to purge 90 percent of my childhood memories from my brain in order to make room for passwords and PINs.
~ Laurie Notaro
Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne
~ Erik Larson
I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun.
~ Tori Kelly
I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The gesture—so random and kind—baffled me. Is this what mothers did, wonder if you might need safety pins? Mine phoned once a month and always asked the same practical questions (grades, classes, upcoming expenses).
~ Gillian Flynn
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
~ Madeleine Albright
Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.
~ Hannah Teter
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.
~ Frances Hardinge
Many in Jebba who had fallen foul of Hasmun had had cause to dread that reliable return, darkness which brought jeweled stares and jeweled pins and pain jeweled with tears and sweat.
~ Tanith Lee
Ahh! They're all just pins!
~ Terry Pratchett
The object had a metal handle about seven inches long, shaped like the handle of a spoon. Where the bowl would have been, there was a row of five closely-spaced, pointy-edged stainless-steel wheels, each about the size of a quarter. The wheels spun freely, fashioned with a series of evenly-spaced sharp pins.
~ Claire Thompson
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them."
~ Charles Edward Montague
My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.
~ Nicola Formichetti
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
~ Mike Leigh
Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.
~ Tim Burton