Top 131 Pins Quotes & Sayings

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale, Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails. Hammers and nails, hammers and nails, Build me a boat to go chasing the whales. Chasing the whales, sailing the blue Find me a captain and sign me a crew. Captain and crew, captain and crew, Take me, oh take me to anywhere new.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

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

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

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

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

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.

I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun.

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

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

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

I have bobby pins everywhere.

When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.

Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

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

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

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

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.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins.

I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun.

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in) I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

All the pins stuck in my head from the wig. I would set off a metal detector. And you know when your head gets really itchy? So when the wig gets put on at like 5:30, 6 A.M., and you can't take it off until 7 P.M. - I won't miss all the pins scratching against my scalp.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

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

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

He gets a little hot sometimes, but that's fine. It shows he wants to win...he fires at pins. I'd rather have someone miss some cuts who's shooting at pins and playing aggressively.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

You should see my Pinterest board. I think I have, like, 400 pins on just, like, the wedding folder.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

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.