Pins Quotes

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. (Gene Fowler)
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags, Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. View quote
John Updike
I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. View quote
Roger Moore
Voodoo girl 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. View quote
Tim Burton
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog. View quote
Frances Hardinge
They say that nameless things change constantly-that names fix them in place like pins. View quote
Holly Black
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. View quote
Anne Taintor
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. (Brit Hume)
The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great. View quote
Greg Ginn
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! View quote
John Buchanan Robinson
I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you. View quote
Josh Ryan Evans
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. View quote
Mike Leigh
My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins. View quote
Nicola Formichetti
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited. View quote
Eliza Dushku
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
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. (Wisława Szymborska)
I don't take stuff seriously. I saw 'Hellraiser 3' the other day at Cannes; it's OK, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Some guy walking round with pins sticking out of his face. I just can't sit there and think,'this is really scary.' If I made a 'Hellraiser' film, I'd like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face. View quote
Peter Jackson
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. View quote
Diane Ackerman
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret: You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. View quote
Diane Ackerman
In the thickness there should be set a very close succession of ties made of charred olive wood, binding the two faces of the wall together like pins, to give it lasting endurance. View quote
Vitruvius