Top 1200 Pin-Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

Great business turns on a little pin.

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

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

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

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

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.

I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.

Anytime you're out there in between those ropes, you always have to worry about fatigue. If you think about it, people get tired just doing cardio. You get tired doing cardio just by yourself. Now imagine running around, picking somebody up, picking you up, trying to pin you, trying to hold you down. It gets very tiring.

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren't always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

I'll never forget the first time Elisabeth Moss kissed me on screen. It was season one of the West Wing and she had to pin me up against a wall in the lobby of the White House. We didn't rehearse it at all and when we did it, she sure enough laid one on me, boy. I was like, "Well, ok, this is going to work out just fine."

Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and picks up a bit of this and a bit of that. I was confirmed a Christian when I was a kid purely because I wanted a piece of jewelry, so I don't know whether this is just another extension of that.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I had an aunt who would go on holiday and send me postcards of palm trees and I would pin them to the wall, so I've gone from that fantasy to reality.

One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

A pin has a head, but has no hair

I'm a huge pin collector.

There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when I was photographing men and women, to be honest, sometimes I felt like I was a john, especially when I was shooting guys because they - you know - they had to have big erections in the photos.

I know how to come off a handoff and a pin down.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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

I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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

There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that make me laugh: I look like the poor man's Maria Montez. But there are some I look at, and I didn't realize how sexy I looked back then.

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just think 'Oh well, that's the pin up guy's an actor like my friend James Mcavoy, who's gorgeous on screen. I'm not that. But at least I don't have to worry about taking precious care of my face because it's my commodity. That's a great freedom. I'm not afraid of being heinous for the sake of a part

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?