Rusty Nail Quotes & Sayings

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. — Jules Verne

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living. — Kurt Warner

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

Perseverance ... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past. — Marie Kondo

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. — Ian Fleming

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. — Tom Waits

When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'Wow! How does that happen?' But pretty much, from there on, everyone's been so lovely. — Levi Miller

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less. — Warren Beatty

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. — Walter Scott

My life with Beh was beautiful, transcending everything that set us apart from each other. — Shay Savage

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy. — Philip Zaleski

Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story — Anne Fadiman

Forgetting is not at all what forgiveness means. — K.M. Shea

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis". — Ambrose Bierce

I know what's coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it's a matter of getting used to that and realizing that you are expelled from your mother's uterus as if shot from a cannon towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It's a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way; and try not to do anything ghastly to your fellow creatures. — Christopher Hitchens

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about. — Gay Talese

Soaking them in buckets of seawater, to which she'd add a handful of cornmeal and a rusty nail. She'd agitate the water several times a day, and change the water after twelve hours. — Ruth Ozeki

It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail. — Donna Tartt

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not. — Bob Dylan

I hate ****ing wizards!
You shouldn't **** them, then — Terry Pratchett