Top 1200 Tin Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.
He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.
Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.
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.
I was about three when my dad came home with a beautiful tin filled with chocolates. I hadn't had chocolate before, and I'll always remember it.
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor
I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!
No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you're eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going 'Why?'
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.
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why?
My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind my uncle, who played the cuatro.
Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.
When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.
I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.
Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can,
Far above the world.
Planet Earth is blue,
And there's nothing I can do.
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.
In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama.
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.
Here I sit, alone at 60,
Bald and fat and full of sin
Cold the seat, and loud the cistern
As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'
Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.
