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Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds. — Ivan Panin

I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off. — Indra Nooyi

How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my Nails can reach unto thine Eyes — William Shakespeare

I almost have no nails left by the time his bubble pops up, but that's cool because everyone has fingernails, and I like to be different. — Tarryn Fisher

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill. — Calvin Klein

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find
blood, nails, a bit of anguish. — Anne Enright

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters. — Bebe Neuwirth

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot

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

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails. — Alan King

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C.S. Lewis

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now — Wallace Stegner

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do. — Serena Williams

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed. — Michael J. Kannengieser

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. — Liz Phair

Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts. — Dada Bhagwan

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails. — Rick Springfield

The thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail. — Billy Graham

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast. — Andy Townsend

Excuses are the nails that are used to build the house of failure. — Don Wilder

But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like, unrequited love. — Margaret Atwood

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. — James Russell Lowell

What is it you want?"
My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said. — Kim Harrison

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. — Warren Farrell

There was something satisfying about swinging the hammer, hitting the nails, and fixing the porch. It made me feel strong. It made me feel powerful. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week! — Karen Walker

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

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes! — Waylon Jennings

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. — Alfred Doblin

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face. — William Shakespeare

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed. — Marianne Faithfull

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws. — Charles Nelson Reilly

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. — Lewis Grizzard

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa

Are you proud of yourself, Katherine?"
She studied her nails. "Quite. — Victoria Schwab

Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow) — Raymond Chandler

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. — Hilarie Burton

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention. — Daisy Berkowitz

Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished. — America Ferrera

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business. — George Clooney

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A strange thing - nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence

I'm a big fan of Kate Moss's style - no-one nails boho meets hippy chic like she does. — Kristin Cavallari

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift

Her finger-nails were painted five different colours, looking like the paints in a child's paintbox; and she was as innocent as a child. — G.K. Chesterton

Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth. — Shelly Laurenston

Shit, it was so damn girly. Next thing you knew, she was going to start crying at TV ads and doing her nails. And getting a frickin' pocketbook. — J.R. Ward

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow — Laurell K. Hamilton

A good nail does not fear being hammered. — Rita Zahara

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. — Abraham Maslow

Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?! — Alex Riley

Yeah, because I feel very fucking lucky right now sleeping next to Edward Scissor Feet. — L.A. Casey

I tear at the air with glass nails
that have learned to scale
mountains of mirrors. — Valentina Cano

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

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see. — Tim Burton

where did these people their food? i'm hungry. — Robert E. Howard

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence. — Brander Matthews

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet — William Maxwell

Nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. — Chuck Palahniuk

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get. — Laura Kasischke

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake. — Adriana Lima

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. — Michel De Montaigne

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 need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails. — Judy L Mohr

You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt.
We all can, love. We all can. — Joey W. Hill

Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague, — Margaret Atwood

You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son. — Richard Brautigan

Left with nothing but my own bloody fingertips, I let out a war cry of my own, raked my nails over its face, and fought like a girl. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. — Alanis Morissette

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails. — Beau Mirchoff

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim — Tori Amos

I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion. — Stephen Colbert

When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. — Arkady Strugatsky

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire. — Bob Dylan

Ever heard someone's voice and it sounded like nails on a chalkboard? I finally know what that feels like. — April Mae Monterrosa

Then there was your voice
Like a windup tin toy
Like the sweetest nails on a chalkboard
That I ever heard — Michelle Dalton

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. — Benoit Mandelbrot

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.' — Maisie Williams

Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished? — Crystal Woods

Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere. — Max Heindel

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was ... and love prevailed. — Louie Giglio

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

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. — Axl Rose

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. — Nat Wolff

The nails did not kill Him ... It was the needs that did. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

And I'd have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell. — Sarah Scheele

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

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails. — Catherynne M Valente

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. — St. Catherine Of Siena

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails. — Ellen Page

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that! — Adrienne Bailon

Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed. — Fredrik Backman

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. — Hugh Latimer

Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience. — Vikrmn

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

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion. — Edwin McCain

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi