Nails Quotes - Page 3

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".

I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.