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  • I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun. -- Katey Sagal
  • Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg. -- Sly Stone
  • Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. -- Anthony Trollope
  • Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. -- Helen Rowland
  • Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien. -- Lindi Ortega
  • I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house. -- Jamie Bamber
  • I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg. -- Jonah Hill
  • All words are pegs to hang ideas on. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then. -- Ronnie Hawkins
  • But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole. -- Cressida Cowell
  • You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day -- Michael Parenti
  • If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg. -- Theodore Gordon
  • Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view. -- Beryl Bainbridge
  • This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate. -- John Butler
  • You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are. -- Benjamin Hoff
  • About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes -- Steve Yegge
  • I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am. -- Miranda Otto
  • This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life! -- Keith Miller
  • That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living, -- Khushwant Singh
  • That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed. -- Mark Twain
  • I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle. -- Joseph Fiennes
  • This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. -- Paul Giamatti
  • Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. -- Brenda Ueland
  • That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole. -- Mick Ralphs
  • You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole. -- Ray Liotta
  • You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?' -- Joe DiMaggio
  • I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself. -- Alison Moyet
  • You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God. -- Cheryl Ladd
  • If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape. -- Tamer Hassan
  • My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that. -- Tom Heinsohn
  • I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. -- George Will
  • A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.' -- Christopher Poole
  • Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable. -- Winston Churchill
  • Hang your idea on a peg that all can read. -- Arthur Brisbane
  • Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on. -- William Henry Maule
  • I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease. -- Wilfred Owen
  • The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. -- Langston Hughes
  • You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. -- Michael Parenti
  • A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. -- Richard Adams
  • The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on. -- Kevin Bleyer
  • He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date. -- Jodi Picoult
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