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«Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade»
«I used to put in a safety pin to make sure.»
«It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.»
Author: Frank Crane
| Keywords:
bearing, bolt, bolted, delicate, fitly, machinery, pin, readjustment, slight
«There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!»
«The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ballerina, Ballerinas, fashioned, features, feminine, girlish, music box, old fashioned, pin, rotate, rotating, spiral, spiraling, spirals, stuck, tinkly, unchanging
«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Angels,
Dancing,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
argued, centuries, cheek, Cheek to Cheek, dancing, philosophers, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«Maybe it?s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It?s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I?d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Research,
Writing
| Keywords:
Bright Future, colored, colorless, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, notebook, notebooks, ordered, pebbles, piece of work, piece of writing, pin, pin down, pockets, sparkle, sparkling, washed
«Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.»
«There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abasement, ferocious, hammer, join forces, pin, pricks, rebels, respectability, social order, The Pin, waged
«I do not set my life at a pin's fee.And for my soul, what can it do to that,Being a thing immortal as itself?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fee, immortal, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
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