Tin Quotations | Page 2

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin', so I went out and got drunk in this bar.' That's the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, 'Oh I missed you darling, so I went to this restaurant and I sat down and had a dinner for one.' That's cleaned up now, you see? But country and blues tells it like it is.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

The French cook; we open tins.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Like a Cat on a hot tin roof

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Thank goodness for all of the things you are not!Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot,and left all alone in some punkerish placelike a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.Thats why I say "Duckie!don't grumble! don't stew!some critters are much-much,oh, ever so much-much,so muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.