Nail Quotes

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

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.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.