Best 173 quotes in «nails quotes» category

In the midst of a full-blown disaster – with the house apparently self-destructing around them – Lila was calmly filing her nails.

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And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects. "Only when they've been naughty.

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.

She hadn't broken a nail in years; she could rip holes in walls and still look well manicured.

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now?

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

And, for the record, I didn't murder anybody. I want to make that clear. It's entertainment and it brings about the message I believe Scott wants to portray in this movie. There are a few messages in the movie and I'm not going to tell you what they are, but Scott hits the nail on the head with him.

My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet. Speed is my ally. Breathe. In and out. Focus. Time is my power.

Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.

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

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

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

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your hair and do your nails. Sometimes, just for fun, I have someone come in to do my nails, but I like to do them three times a week. If I went out to have them done, then I would spend my life at the hairdresser's and that I can't afford.

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.

Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.

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

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

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.

Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

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

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

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

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

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.

He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

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.

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.

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.

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

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

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'