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The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. — Mason Cooley

My organs are dead, my bones are cracked, my skin is a sieve, punctured by pins and needles of pain. — Tahereh Mafi

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet. — Marie Helvin

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. — Mark Lawrence

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off. — Tyra Banks

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear. — Shannon L. Alder

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! — John Buchanan Robinson

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell. — John Steinbeck

Ren's conquests fell into two categories: those girls who still pined for him and those who stuck pins into his voodoo likeness every night. — Andrea Cremer

She hasn't forgotten that I once called that thing she does, with the pins, Pinteresque. — Olivia Sudjic

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin. — Orson Welles

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face. — Preneet Kaur

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush. — Andrew Sullivan

He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls. — Geoffrey Chaucer

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. — Munia Khan

A pin has a head, but has no hair — Christina Rossetti

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension! — Isaac Asimov

Did you hear about what happened at the Laundromat last night? Three clothes-pins held — Various

But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in. — Tim Burton

I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm! — William Blake

ammunition boxes. They were both packed tight with cartridges standing on their firing pins, points upward. — Lee Child

My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain. — Lilith Saintcrow

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne, — Erik Larson

A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion. — Kelly Barnhill

Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch. — Nicole Richie

In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins. — Rosamund Hodge

I'm a bowling pin, even when I fall I'll always stand back up. — Jay Park

They say that nameless things change constantly - that names fix them in place like pins. — Holly Black

Dream sweet, Lilly flower," his words are like tiny pins pricking all over my skin. — Amie Nichols

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it. — Madeleine Albright

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

When night draws back the curtain,
And pins it with a star,
Remember you are still my friend,
Though you may wander far — Betty Smith

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise. — Princess Superstar

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. — John Updike

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning. — Andrei Codrescu

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be. — Tom Peters

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. — Anne Spencer

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. — Madeleine Albright

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year. — Benjamin Franklin

I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun. — Christa Miller

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house. — Al Sharpton

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog. — Frances Hardinge

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. — L.M. Montgomery

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife. — George Herbert

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. — Tim Ferriss

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you. — Josh Ryan Evans

Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness. — Megan Abbott

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out. — James Joyce

Ginger beer these days is mostly the sort of chemical-infused broth that pins children to the ceiling. — Fennel Hudson

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. — Wislawa Szymborska

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. — Louise Erdrich

You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words. — Brett Weston

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. — Gene Fowler

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts. — Carter Dickson

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes. — Tina Weymouth

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman

That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins. — David Letterman

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ... — Israel Zangwill

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. — Mike Leigh

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with. — Sam Altman

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming. — Patrick Stump

Ahh! They're all just pins! — Terry Pratchett

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins. — Nicola Formichetti

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them. — Charles Edward Montague