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Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are -- Chris Burden
Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You -- Angelica Hopes
If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. -- Lewis Grizzard
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others. -- Deana Carter
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created. -- Paul Gauguin
That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers. -- Sarah MacLean
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized. -- Charles Studd
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. -- Georges Braque
Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art. -- Ashley Madekwe
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are. -- Caroline Corr
I can't live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things. -- Kelis
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. -- Oliver Reed
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. -- Walter Scott
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. -- Warren Farrell
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. -- Rooney Mara
I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive. -- Ian Somerhalder
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. -- Emma Watson
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets. -- Ines de La Fressange
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. -- Pauline Hanson
I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish. -- Michael Kors
In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side. -- John Shelby Spong
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail. -- Geoffrey Canada
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. -- Keith Haring
Everything I do is unfabulous. I'm the most normal person. I love walking everywhere and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people. -- Ashley Benson
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. -- Megan Fox
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. -- Todd Solondz
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. -- Saint Augustine
Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. -- Tina Brown
One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us. -- Steve Harvey
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. -- Ann Hood
Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense -- Peter Travers
Hit the nail on the head. -- John Heywood
Lets nail it down, lets get it right. -- Frank Reynolds
Let's nail it down, let's get it right. -- Frank Reynolds
A good nail does not fear being hammered. -- Rita Zahara
To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- Mark Twain
The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail. -- Henny Youngman
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. -- Patrick Jones
I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time. -- Hope Davis
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast. -- Andy Townsend
A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] -- Horace
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. -- C. S. Lewis
My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!! -- Rodney Dangerfield
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. -- Chuck Schumer
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. -- Sebastian Horsley
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together. -- Jefferson Davis
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- Bernard Baruch
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. -- Chuck Schumer
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. -- Tom Waits
When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail. -- David "Doc" Searls
If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail. -- Sholem Asch
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. -- Desiderius Erasmus
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. -- Charlie Munger
... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail. -- Billy Graham
If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered. -- Luis Alberto Urrea
Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish. -- Victoria Beckham
I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things. -- Kelis
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. -- Jamie Zawinski
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
As the saying goes, when you`re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- Chuck Todd
If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away? -- George Carlin
If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. -- Mark Twain
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. -- V.C. Andrews
Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head. -- Charlotte Bronte
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him. -- E. Stanley Jones
My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together. -- Kurt Schwitters
I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever. -- Cate Tiernan
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail. -- Barack Obama
If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. -- Roger Moore
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer! -- Dan Hawkins
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. -- Clive James
You can't hammer in a nail with wordsNo, but you can start a war with them. -- Ben Galley
Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place... -- Anne Hathaway
I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion. -- Stephen Colbert
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet -- William Maxwell
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for. -- Bob Seger
Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. -- Quincy Jones
I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim -- Tori Amos
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint. -- Arjun Rampal
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out. -- John Wolcot
Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any. -- Virginia Woolf
On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem. -- Humphrey Bogart
Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets. -- Jessa Crispin
[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick -- Ron Dellums
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. -- Ann Voskamp
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds. -- Ivan Panin
...there were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?... -- Regina Brett
Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy. -- Sandra Bullock
Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work. -- Henry David Thoreau
The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. -- Colum McCann
I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper. -- Ludacris
To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee. -- Efim Bogoljubov
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition. -- Joel McHale
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. -- Adrienne Rich
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail -- Terry Pratchett
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. -- Martin Freeman
I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes. -- Ariel Winter
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them. -- G. Hannelius
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail. -- Ernest Hemingway
Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail. -- Frank Capra
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. -- William Shakespeare
Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve? -- Katie McGarry
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word -- Rooney Mara
I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him. -- Sofia Vergara
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. -- Robert Breault
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. -- Sol LeWitt
I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend. -- Noomi Rapace
In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. -- Scott Caan
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich. -- George Scialabba
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters.... ...I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... ...I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club -- Kurt Schwitters
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on. -- Rita Zahara

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