Top 978 Tin Pan Alley Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

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.

Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

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

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

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

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

You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

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

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

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

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

God sounds kinda like a shitty father to me. If God was so powerful why'd he have to give his son up? It sounds like God owed someone some money and they couldn't get to him, so they murked his son. That's what I really think happened. Jesus got stabbed up in an alley... but it's easier to sell crucifixes. You can't sell a pendant of someone getting shanked up In the alley. It's a marketing scheme.

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

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.

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

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

Easy street is a blind alley.

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

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

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

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

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

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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

I've wined and dined with kings and queens, and I've slept in the alley eating pork and beans.

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

What problem does Pan-Asianism attempt to solve? The problem is how to terminate the sufferings of the Asiatic peoples and how to resist the aggression of the powerful European countries. In a word, Pan-Asianism represents the cause of the oppressed Asiatic peoples.

I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

I eat a tin of sardines every day.

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

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

Go out and ask her into the alley.” Clay looked at Jeremy as if he’d just been told to dance the rumba on a public thoroughfare. I bit back a laugh. “Just walk over to her and point at the alley. Maybe say…I don’t know…something like ‘fifty bucks.’ ” I looked at Jeremy. “Does that sound right? Fifty?” His brows shot up. “Why are you asking me?” “I wasn’t—I just meant, as a general…” I threw up my hands. “How am I supposed to know how much a hooker costs?

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

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

And you call yourselves a bowling alley?

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

Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.