Nail Quotes

“I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.”

“I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.”

“The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”

“Years ago, my mother and I fell in love with Busybee’s voice, its calm, even tone, and a smile which was always audible in the language. My father, meanwhile, is clipping his nails fastidiously, letting them fall on to an old, spread-out copy of the Times of India, till he sneezes explosively, as he customarily does, sending the crescent-shaped nail-clippings flying into the universe.”

“A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!”

“This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it,I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me.I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece butI can’t do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right,a help, a love, a you, a wife.”

“But the windows of the house of Memory, and the windows of the house of Mercy, are not so easily closed as windows of glass and wood. They fly open unexpectedly; they rattle in the night; they must be nailed up. Mr. The Englishman had tried nailing them, but had not driven the nails quite home. So he passed but a disturbed evening and a worse night.”

“Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.”

“Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.”

“Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.”

“Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.”