A Quote by Collis Potter Huntington

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. — © Collis Potter Huntington
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.
I'm lucky to have this career where I haven't spent time nailed down to one brand.
Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender
Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.
I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.
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