#pins

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ↗

— Frank Abagnale

#looking #other #pinstripes #stop #team

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#old-maid #spinsterhood #marriage

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

Spinster: a woman who wants to be free from a man’s bondage, so she goes to work for an employer and remains unburdened by someone willing to pay her mortgage. By virtue of not wading into the gene pool, she never has children who might betray her to a nursing home – her neighbors find some excuse to do that. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #single #spinster #funny

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#aspect #back #ball #before #bowling

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention. ↗

— Neil Young

#attention #came #ears #friends #god

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. ↗

— Brit Hume

#american flag #attitudes #certain #elitism #flag