Top 179 Nailed Quotes & Sayings

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

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.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.

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.

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

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.

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling.

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'm lucky to have this career where I haven't spent time nailed down to one brand.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

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.

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!'

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

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.

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.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

When I started with 'Fugly', I was excited that I was playing a raw and edgy character in the film. After I nailed the audition, I realised that the role wasn't something I was comfortable with.