Pins Quotes

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

Great business turns on a little pin.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.