Top 252 Tin Quotes & Sayings

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

I eat a tin of sardines every day.

A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

I'm a one-nation Conservative and that means exactly what it says on the tin.

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

'Cockneys vs. Zombies' does exactly what it says on the tin.

No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you're eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going 'Why?'

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

In 1923 I was the No. 1 box office star. A year later it was Rin Tin Tin.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

I'm trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he's the most heartfelt guy there. It's a more manly heartfelt, a 'don't feel sorry for me' - type of heartfelt. I don't want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man's man.

In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama.

On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

If we have to dig a trench and put our tin hats on at times we will do it and we proved we can do that as well as play.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.

'Tin Cup' was great because I loved the comedy aspect of it, so that was good.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn't really make much difference whether it comes from a tin, or whether it's fresh because it's just being used in a lot of other things.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?