#nails

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cutting #driving #heads #into #must

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. ↗

— Axl Rose

#i #inch #like #nails #nine

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

— Usher

#appearance #clip #consider #definitely #girlfriend

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#blind #cross #dark #falls #forty

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love. ↗

— Peter Andre

#down #earth #ends #fall #go

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#boring #fingernails #i #never #off

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#hands #i #little #man #maybe