Nail Quotes

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.

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.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

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.

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

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

And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it.

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

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

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.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

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

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.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.