Top 1200 Pin-Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

Stars appear as pin-points of light. They don't twinkle there as they do when we see them from earth because the atmospheric blanket is not there.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

The best thing about my game is I'm able to do a lot of things. I can handle. I can pass. You can bring me off screens and pin-downs.

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

Gray has this crisp, neat-as-a-pin thing going for it, whereas black seems lazy and, at the same time, like it's trying too hard.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

'Pin' was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

I can't obsess, I can't become somebody who grows old disgracefully, I'm not one of those people that tries to pin back the hands of time.

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

There are a lot of very beautiful people in world. I'd love to tell you who my pin-ups are now, but I might meet them.

I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING!

I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.

Most actresses began their career as glamorous pin-ups before being noticed for their acting talents.

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.