Nails famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
-- Adrienne Bailon -
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
-- Aleister Crowley -
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
-- Anderson Cooper -
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
-- Andrea Arnold -
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
-- Andrew Bird -
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.
-- Andy Townsend -
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
-- Anne Enright -
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...
-- Antonin Artaud -
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
-- Arjun Rampal -
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...
-- Astley Cooper -
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.
-- Ayn Rand -
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
-- Barack Obama -
Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
-- Beau Mirchoff -
I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.
-- Bella Thorne -
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
-- Bill Hybels -
... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
-- Billy Graham -
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
-- Bob Dylan -
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
-- Bob Seger -
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
-- Brion Gysin -
I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails!... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.
-- Britney Spears -
If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
-- Caroline Corr -
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.
-- Carson McCullers -
I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
-- Cate Tiernan -
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
-- Charles Babbage -
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
-- Charles Schumer -
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.
-- Charles Studd -
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
-- Chris Burden -
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
-- Clive James -
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
-- D. A. Carson -
I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.
-- Dara Torres -
When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.
-- David "Doc" Searls -
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.
-- Deana Carter -
I know why girls go and have their nails done so often and have spa days. It feels awesome.
-- DeAndre Jordan -
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
-- Dorothy Parker -
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
-- Ed Westwick -
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
-- Elvis Costello -
I always have red nail polish on my nails, so if they ever discontinue the red polish I wear from OPI, I'd be really upset.
-- Emma Roberts -
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.
-- G. Hannelius -
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
-- Georges Braque -
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
-- Graham Greene -
I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.
-- Grey DeLisle -
If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery.
-- Heidi Montag -
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
-- Hilarie Burton -
I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.
-- Hope Davis -
A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]
-- Horace -
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
-- Horace -
On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ***** during the National Anthem.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
-- Ian Mcewan -
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
-- Iggy Pop -
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
-- Ines de La Fressange -
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
-- Ivan Panin -
One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.
-- J. Robbins -
Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
-- Jack Huston -
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
-- Jack Nicholson -
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
-- Jeff Grubb -
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.
-- Jefferson Davis -
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
-- Joe Baca -
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
-- Joel McHale -
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
-- John Burroughs -
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
-- John Mortimer -
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
-- John Wolcot -
Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
-- Jon Gordon -
I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!
-- Joy Bryant -
I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.
-- Julia Sawalha -
The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
-- Kai Greene -
Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photos—see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die.
-- Karen Marie Moning -
Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.
-- Kató Lomb -
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
-- Keith Haring -
I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.
-- Kelis -
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters.... ...I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... ...I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club
-- Kurt Schwitters -
The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.
-- Lala Lajpat Rai -
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.
-- Laura E. Richards -
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
-- Laurie R. King -
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
-- Lech Walesa -
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
-- Lee Bolman -
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.
-- Louie Giglio
