Hairpin Quotes

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash. (Jodi Picoult)

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Virginia Woolf

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

Vidal Sassoon

Seeing a guest come, she feels shy; Her stockings coming down, away she tries to fly. Her hairpin drops; She never stops But to look back. She leans against the door, Pretending to sniff at mume blossoms once more.

Li Qingzhao